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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I thank Mr. Fraser and I appreciate his attendance before this committee. As the Chairman and the previous speaker has said, it is really important that the work of these committees is not impeded or frustrated. It is disappointing that for the first time in as long as I am member of this committee, at well over a decade, we have had to seek compellability because another Secretary General...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: That was a meeting. It was a formal meeting at that stage-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: It was a formal meeting. Was it a meeting that was recorded?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: It was an arranged meeting as opposed to meeting somebody in the corridor and having a chat-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Was the purpose of the meeting to discuss Dr. Holohan's intentions for the future or what was the purpose of the meeting? Why did you arrange it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Were there any records, notes, minutes or any-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: No notes?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I understand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Okay. There was an arranged meeting that was entered into both of your diaries. I am sure both of you arranged a time to discuss Dr. Holohan's future intentions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: At that meeting, what did he indicate to you?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Absolutely and I am only focusing on the process in terms of the secondment. At that point, he was indicating to you that he was looking at other options beyond CMO. Would that be correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: In the briefing or report that Mr. Robert Watt furnished to the Minister, he states the following: This followed on from initial discussions I had with the CMO in August 2021 regarding his future work plans. This involved the Secretary of the Government and myself, as Secretary General of the Department of Health. I find it hard not to read from that the suggestion that the three of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Absolutely. I can understand that at that time and I understand the motivation behind that, in terms of seeing where people are at, but we are just trying to get to the facts. One of the parties will not come before this committee to answer these questions so we are trying to work on the basis of your recollection. Would there potentially have been a second meeting, a three-way meeting or...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: The Secretary General of the Department of Health, Mr. Robert Watt, indicates that there was a three-way meeting and he suggests that it was in August 2021. Let me take you forward-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Okay, those telephone conversations are not in your opening statement or in Mr. Robert Watt's statement----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Let my clarify this. If you are suggesting that what is referred to in Mr. Robert Watt's statement was not a three-way meeting but may have been a telephone conversation that you had with him afterwards, at that time, then that is not referred to in your opening statement and neither is it referred to in Mr. Watt's submission to the Minister for Health.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Let me take you to the next point but details matter here, let us be clear.