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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: 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?

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: Right now, the answer feels unspecific and nebulous. In the interest of our being able to test those protocols, you should identify them to us.

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. A person who is paid €300,000 per year and is making decisions like this should be able to reference the protocols on which the decision is based.

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: Will you be specific as to the source of the guidance in terms of protocols on this and identify them 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: Mr. Watt, you are not providing any detail on those protocols, where they are located or what the names are. That is a major hole in the evidence you are giving today, on the basis you are saying you did not breach any protocols. That is a weakness. There are major difficulties here. There is no doubt, right now, that there is a fracture in the governance of this State. There is a major...

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 am happy I am giving a fair summation 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)

Peadar Tóibín: Go raibh maith agat.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the President of the United States. [15128/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (18 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 48. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there has been a 345% increase in those leaving An Garda Síochána since 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17712/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (18 Apr 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 57. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps his Department is taking to address the retention crisis in An Garda Síochána.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17713/23]

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

Peadar Tóibín: 105. To ask the Taoiseach the number of Departmental staff currently on sick or stress leave; and the number who took stress or sick leave in each of the past five years and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [17787/23]

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

Peadar Tóibín: 106. To ask the Taoiseach the number of allegations of bullying made by departmental staff against departmental staff in each of the past five years and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will detail what actions are being taken by his Department to investigate the allegations or if they are being investigated. [17805/23]

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

Peadar Tóibín: 107. To ask the Taoiseach the number of departmental staff dismissed in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [17823/23]