Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

My question is in regard to the programme for Government and the ethics of public service and Government. I was very taken aback by the Taoiseach's response to my earlier question regarding the potential conflict of interest involved in the director general of the HSE being on the board of Evofem, a contraceptive manufacturer in the United States. Thomas Lynch, the chair of the Mater Hospital, is also chair of that company. Does the Taoiseach not get the potential conflict of interest? I do not know how Mr. O'Brien was facilitated in going on that board. Mr. Lynch is chair of the Mater Hospital and the Ireland East Hospital Group and will be putting forward projects which the Mater Hospital will want. I do not know how the director general of the HSE got on the board.

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