Results 3,101-3,120 of 16,212 for speaker:Peadar Tóibín
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: No, no. If we are simply producing reports with accountability-free views, these are just analysis then. It is just meaningless opinion. However, this report is more than meaningless opinion surely. It comes to a conclusion; the conclusion is that there was wrongdoing and ill administration, then the highest-paid public servant in the country should have some level of responsibility to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: Okay. That again leaves you isolated in terms of the report, does it not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: I will repeat the question for you again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: It says accepted protocols were breached.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: Okay, Mr. Watt-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: Do you have an interest in finding out yourself what protocols you are deemed not to have fulfilled?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: What we are likely to see here then is what happens in the public administration system in this country where there is a major political crisis; there is an outcry in relation to how the country is run; people are fearful individuals are involved in the design of particular roles from which they will financially benefit; that we have an inversion of authority within a Department in which...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: You have a view because you have offered your view a number of times. Do you have a view on that yourself?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: It seems to be that your views are strategic sometimes in relation to making pronouncements on what is happening here. The other elements of this which I find interesting is that the National Public Health Emergency Team, NPHET, was wound up in February 2022, roughly at the same time when this process for secondment started. Many in the country, if we think back, were actually taken aback...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: Ms Quinn was asked, I think, on 1 July to write this report and on 1 July the CMO resigned from his job.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: Both happened on the same day.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: My understanding is both were on the same day and I can check in relation to that. The other question here that strikes me is that Mr. Martin Fraser was obviously moved into the position of ambassador to London as well, which again makes it more difficult for elected representatives such as ourselves to be able to ask questions of him in this whole process. Is there any link to that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: The learnings associated here from the research are indicated in section 5.2 of the report under the heading governance of the proposed research funding: The proposed funding of €2 million a year committed to by the Secretary General, Department of Health, in the Letter of Intent to Trinity College Dublin (to include University Departments of PublicHealth and others) until the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: If you do not accept the finding, will behaviour change in relation to that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: What kind of adjudication process should the elected representatives of people have in a scenario such as this where you are in full contradiction to a report of this magnitude?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: I think that is what contradiction means, in fairness.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: Can you indicate what the protocols are for research funding in terms of the proposed funding of €2 million that was committed? What protocols did you adhere to? Can you identify those protocols?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: No, no. You said that the report itself does not identify the protocols that it then states that you did not adhere to. Can you identify what protocols you did adhere to in terms of that whole process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Peadar Tóibín: Because there is a difference of opinion between you and Ms Quinn about the protocols, can you identify what those protocols are by name, by location in law or however they exist? Can you identify exactly the protocols you used?