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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)

Michael McNamara: Okay. Was there any relief in the Government when he made his announcement or when Mr. Fraser learned of it? Mr. Fraser would have learned that he was to leave before it became public. Mr. Fraser was very specific that he did not discuss it with the Taoiseach. Did he discuss it with any of the people around the Taoiseach, such as Ms Gillane or his various advisers? Did he discuss the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)

Michael McNamara: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)

Michael McNamara: Not relief, but that a potential problem had been averted, that problem being this challenge that he posed to the authority of the Government. Many people felt a greater allegiance to what he had to say, and felt that his word was that which ought to be followed rather than that of the Government. There was huge confusion about what was law and what was guidelines. Of course, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)

Michael McNamara: Okay. I refer to what Mr. Fraser discussed at the beginning of the meeting. Previously, when people left or retired from the public service they usually went into retirement, but now everything has become more fluid. People come and go in the public service and their tenure is shorter. Politicians have a cooling-off period, and even some political advisers have a cooling-off period,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)

Michael McNamara: In the week that Dr. Holohan's announcement was made, and that is why Mr. Fraser is here, it was announced that the HSE chief operations officer was leaving and going directly to work for Voluntary Health Insurance, VHI, which pays the HSE for services provided, and that the deputy national director of acute operations of the HSE was going to HIQA, which is still within the public sector but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)

Michael McNamara: I am not expecting Mr. Fraser to comment on that, I am just illustrating it by way of example.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)

Michael McNamara: Finally, Dr. Holohan has announced that he is leaving on 1 July. Other than his leaving, which is significant in itself, is 1 July a significant date in terms of things such as the financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, and so forth? What happens on 1 July in terms of public pay and so forth?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)

Michael McNamara: There is no increment-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)

Michael McNamara: I am not suggesting-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)

Michael McNamara: On the reversal of Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest, FEMPI, cuts, you would obviously have been across FEMPI and all of that. There is no reversal of FEMPI cuts or incremental pay increases - not related to the CMO but to the entire public service, to which the pay of TDs is also linked, I hasten to add - happening on 1 July, is there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)

Michael McNamara: I do not know, for sure, either.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)

Michael McNamara: I do not know. I have heard murmurings but you obviously would have a lot more information. One hears murmurings in this place. That is why civil servants exist-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)

Michael McNamara: It is to set politicians straight.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)

Michael McNamara: They are indeed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)

Michael McNamara: I do not know either.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)

Michael McNamara: I do not know; I am asking.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)

Michael McNamara: Thanks. I thought you might know. Thank you very much for your time and for coming in. The best of luck in London.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)

Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Fraser. He will recall that in October 2020 there was what was perceived by some people, and some in the media, as something of a stand-off between the Government and NPHET as to whether there would or would not be another lockdown. The Tánaiste made a much-commented-on appearance on the Claire Byrne show. Suddenly, notwithstanding this stand-off, some would say the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (4 May 2022)

Michael McNamara: 280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 919 of 26 April 2022, if she will address the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22073/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (4 May 2022)

Michael McNamara: 319. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22221/22]