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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)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The €20 million did not need to be cleared.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: When the Minister eventually did find out about the proposal, he thought the way this was being done and funded was problematic. It is beyond problematic that the Minster was not even informed. Should the Minister for Health have been informed that the €20 million would be attached to the secondment? Why was this not done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It was done retrospectively. It was done afterwards.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Did that email get to the Minister?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Did the email get to the Minister at all? The Secretary General did not check if the email had been received. Did he check it had been received?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It all seems rather strange.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: You stated previously that the €20 million, or the €2 million annually, would have been administered through the Health Research Board. Does that mean that the funding would have come out of the allocation of the HRB or would additional funding have been provided by the HRB? Now Mr. Watt says additional money was-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: -----put in afterwards.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The HRB states: all funding received is disbursed by the HRB following rigorous international peer review of applications, based on strict criteria and principles laid down by the Board and in accordance with best international practices in research assessment and research management and governance. ... Funding is never provided in a manner where it is directed at a pre-named individual. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is beyond question that we need more investment in research and development, particularly public research and development, to address the issues that we have not only in terms of a future pandemic but climate change and many other things.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Mr. Watt knows of the precarious working conditions inside of that sector for many of those who are doing extremely valuable research and the way they are treated, as well as the way they are treated as opposed to what has happened here, in terms of all of the procedures going out of the window. There was no international peer review of applications in this instance. You made the HRB go...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Does Mr. Watt take responsibility for that due to the manner in which the secondment was handled? That is the key question here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Somebody must take responsibility for Tony Holohan pulling out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Mr. Watt, nobody disputes that. However, this is public money and you tried to present it that people asking genuine, legitimate questions about procedures and how funding was allocated is what led to Tony Holohan pulling out. Is it not your mishandling of the process that has led to this unfortunate situation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: In the same way that you completely dismiss this report, I will say to you that it is your mishandling-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: You said almost all of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: People will make up their mind. I think you are underestimating just how closely people are watching what you have done here. They are absolutely dismayed by what you have done, both in terms of your behaviours that led to Tony Holohan making the decision that he had to make in the end and in terms of the processes and everything being set aside in order that one person could make this...

Department Underspend and Reduced Delivery of Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The failure to spend the money allocated for housing, the exclusion of most of County Mayo from the affordable housing scheme and the callous decision to remove the eviction ban are devastating families right here, right now. Men, women and children are being directly impacted. I am working with a woman from Westport. She has three daughters and is going to be evicted next Monday, 24...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [14963/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Projects (18 Apr 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 108. To ask the Taoiseach the number of meetings that have taken place of the Strategic Foresight and Strengthening Policy Development research project, jointly overseen by his Department. [18103/23]