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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: 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-----
- 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 suggested-----
- 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 were very-----
- 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 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: Regarding Ms Quinn, you are saying "What protocols?" When she says there are defined processes and protocols in relation to the distribution of research funding, as Secretary General of the Department of Health, you are not aware of these processes or protocols. Is that your contention?
- 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 might clarify this for me because I have always wondered. As Secretary General of the Department, the responses to parliamentary questions end up on your desk before they are published. Is that correct? You answered a parliamentary question in the past about the processes and protocols for health funding. You answered a parliamentary question from my colleague, Deputy Cullinane, which...
- 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 not the case that that answer is no longer accurate? It should say, "never predetermined other than in the case of what we tried to do with Tony Holohan where we ring-fenced his salary, his expenses and his professional fees 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)
Pearse Doherty: In the letter of intent, it is very-----
- 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 very clear. That portion of the fund is going to Trinity for his-----
- 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: Ms Quinn says the processes and protocols are clear. Let me quote her here. She stated: "There are clearly defined processes and protocols in place". In fairness, you made the point that she did not name those protocols and did not reference those protocols. However, you answered the parliamentary question, yourself, on behalf of the Minister - or the Minister did - which actually...
- 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, because you make the point they are never predetermined, that in this case what was attempted was that a portion of that funding was predetermined?
- 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 matter if it was 10%, 5% or 1%.
- 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.
- 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 that you actually rejected her findings. You rejected her finding that the protocols were bypassed. Do you now accept as the Secretary General that the protocol for a portion of that funding was bypassed and she is correct in her recommendation and in her finding? You made the point earlier that she did not say who bypassed the protocols. She did say it was you, as...
- 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: On page 22 the review says that, "The proposed funding of €2 million a year committed to by the Secretary General [that is you] ... was a very significant commitment which by-passed all of the accepted protocols for research funding and was linked atypically to one named individual." It did mention you. She does find that you are the person who "by-passed all of the accepted protocols".
- 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 am reading it in the words.
- 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 not see "by the Secretary General"?