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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)
Pearse Doherty: The question is whether Martin Fraser asked you to do it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Okay-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: That is what we are trying to ascertain. Mr. Fraser says he has no authority to give any instruction. You accepted earlier before this committee in answering questions from me that you accept that Mr. Fraser had no authority to give instruction to you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: You also say that Mr. Fraser confirmed to you that he told the Taoiseach's chief of staff Ms Deirdre Gillane of the secondment arrangement. How and when did Mr. Fraser confirm this to you? In his correspondence, Mr. Fraser disputes this, saying he did not discuss the matter with anyone except the CMO and the Secretary General of the Department of Health, yourself. He says he did not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: You say that he told the Taoiseach's chief of staff Ms Deirdre Gillane. How and when did Mr. Fraser confirm this to you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: No, you told the review that Mr. Fraser confirmed to you that he told the Taoiseach's chief of staff Ms Deirdre Gillane.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Did that happen?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: I was here at the committee. I know what he said. I was not there when Mr. Fraser was talking to you about Ms Deirdre Gillane and that is what I want to find out. Did Martin Fraser tell you that he informed Deirdre Gillane of the secondment? How did that conversation go? What were the details?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Even if he said it to this committee that was well after the fact. At that point in time you would not have had any inkling that Deirdre Gillane, or indeed the Government, was aware of the details of this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Do you accept what Deirdre Gillane has said in-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Do you accept in full what Deirdre Gillane has said to the review?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Do you accept in full what Martin Fraser has told the review committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: I will leave it at that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Perhaps my hearing is bad. Will you answer it again?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: It does not mention the Health Research Board. It does not mention the source of the funding.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: I only need ten minutes if you want to wrap it up now. It is up to you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: I just have a couple of questions for the Secretary General. The report talks about the motivation here. I am not questioning the motivation of any individual here. I am questioning the processes and how a large amount of money was allocated without authority in my view. The author of this report is not here. There is what I would say is quite stinging criticism from you about the author...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: I will make the point and you can clarify then. In response to questioning here, you suggested that there were no footnotes, no details in terms of-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
Pearse Doherty: -----the protocols. I thought it was a very glib-----