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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Recommendation No. 7 states: "No one individual should be personally and exclusively involved in any negotiation with third parties which involves the disbursement of state funds in which they have a potential personal interest."
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: You disagree with the recommendation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister agrees with the recommendation. The Government and the Taoiseach agree with the recommendation. As Secretary General of the Department of Health, will you confirm that you disagree with the recommendation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Will you implement this recommendation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: The Government has already accepted the recommendation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: You are at odds with it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: If a new Tony Holohan came along and started emailing you asking you to sign a letter of intent that includes that person's secondment to a university for possibly the next ten years and, along with that, the Department potentially having to commit up to €20 million of State funding, will you not allow that to happen in the future, given recommendation No. 7?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: You are a former Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform. Is committing up to €20 million of taxpayers' money something the Secretary General of the Department of Health can do or does it have to go through some process the Government approves?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Okay, but that is not the question. The question is whether it needs Government approval.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: The intention was that this secondment would be made public before there was Government approval. Is that not the case? You had sanctioned this and the press release was to go out on 24 March. You make a big issue that the details were not worked out. Is it not your contention to the committee that the details were not worked out and it had to be fast-tracked? Indeed, the Department...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: It is in the findings of the report. Given you have rejected so many of the findings I have put to you so far, I am not sure whether you reject the entire report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Let us move on to Martin Fraser. Do you accept that Martin Fraser did not have the authority to sanction the approval of this process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: He did not sanction it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: In your submission to the external review, you said: "the facts indicate that the Secretary to the Government knew all the critical details regarding the proposed secondment and the proposal to increase research funding." Mr Fraser told Ms Quinn, "I was not aware of the details of the processes for allocation of health research funding, or of the potential sources of such funding". He...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: So you say he had all the critical details regarding the proposed secondment and the proposal to increase research funding. He says that he was not aware of the details or of the processes for allocating health research funding or the potential sources of such funding. Are the potential sources of such funding and the process for allocating them not critical details?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Do you have the report in front of you?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: The report that you have rejected over and over again at this committee meeting. The report by Ms Quinn.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: I know. I am just-----