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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)
Peadar Tóibín: That sentence clearly-----
- 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 understand, but there is a question-----
- 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 point is that there is a question of governance here. There is a big question that is at the centre of Government in this country for years. Ideally, we should have a system where we have the elected representatives who choose the Ministers who then direct the public or civil servants to implement how the Government should be run. That means there needs to be an alignment with senior...
- 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 sort of accountability should happen on the basis of this report?
- 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 think there should be accountability? Do you think your role should in some way be governed by what has happened and the recommendations in this report?
- 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 understand with regard to how these things will be done in the future but even on how these things were done in the past, do you think there is a need for accountability in how this process happened? The report is very clear and says all accepted protocols were not fulfilled, or in other words, were breached. That is an action which through administration was a wrongdoing. One would...
- 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 point is, if a report is written about me, or a ministerially generated report makes a recommendation-----
- 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 disagree with it, it does not give you immunity to accountability on it, does it?
- 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.