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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: So why are you telling me about the subsequent letters that he did not have when I am trying to ascertain what Martin Fraser knew or did not know at the time. You are disputing what Martin Fraser 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: You are disputing it because I have read-----
- 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 go on to say in your submission that you were "subsequently instructed to finalise the arrangements to give effect to this". What instructions?
- 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 it the case that he may not have instructed you or he may not even have asked you to finalise 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: 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.