Results 5,101-5,120 of 36,133 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- 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 the Minister know at that stage, on 16 March, that you were approving an allocation of €2 million-----
- 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: -----and that was contained in the letter of intent?
- 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: Is the answer "No" that the Minister did not know that you had set out in your letter of intent €2 million of allocation of funds?
- 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. Did he know or did he not know? Please, let me know.
- 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: What is the problem with my question?
- 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: Okay. The Minister did not know in your letter of intent, as you call it, which you signed and which says that the Department of Health "commits to". Do you accept that those words are in that letter? The letter states commits to "make an annual ring-fenced allocation of €2M for the duration of the secondment.” You go on to say in the letter that "The annual allocation will...
- 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 is in the letter. It is here in black and white. Do you dispute the words that are on that letter you signed?
- 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: Let me finish so you have the context. The letter states that "The annual allocation will provide Trinity College Dublin with funds to provide Dr Holohan’s salary ... until his retirement, superannuation contributions and relevant expenses ... membership, travel ... professional requirements." Do you accept that you committed funding to Trinity College Dublin?
- 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 is in black and white.
- 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: But-----
- 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 letter states that "[t]he annual allocation will provide Trinity College Dublin with funds". Is there another Trinity College Dublin to which this money was going? You signed this letter. You said you were committing this 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: That understanding was that at least part of the allocation of €2 million to Trinity College Dublin would be used for that purpose.
- 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 would be funnelled through the Health Research Board.
- 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 have the authority to dictate to the Health Research Board how funding allocated to it will be used or is it not the case, as the board pointed out, that it allocates funding through a competitive process?
- 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: Am I right in saying that Trinity College did not apply for this competition and Dr. Holohan did not apply for this competition, but you actually committed that this money would be linked to Dr. Holohan's secondment and that Trinity College Dublin would at least have a portion of this €2 million?
- 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 is about more than his salary. The question is whether you have the authority to dictate to the Health Research Board how funding that is allocated to it is dispensed. Is the answer not "No"?
- 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 have the authority to do 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: Do you have the authority?