From top: Robert Watt and Dr Tony Holohan

This afternoon.

Via RTÉ news:

The Watt Report into the abandoned appointment of Dr Tony Holohan to a post at TCD says the Minister for Health was not informed of details or that it was even a secondment, RTÉ News has learned.

Robert Watt, Department Secretary General, has argued that it was his area of delegated responsibility under the law, so the minister did not need to be informed.

It says there are many secondments, perhaps 50/60 between the Department, HSE, other bodies and that it not an unusual thing and not a matter for the minister, but a staffing and personnel issue.

It indicates that the CMO may have initiated the contact with Trinity and it developed from there.

The report acknowledges that more information sooner would have been better, but that the appointment leaked and the department had to put out statements.

It says the funding had not been agreed fully at that stage, but it may have been done through the Health Research Board…

More as we get it.

Minister did not need to be informed of CMO secondment – Watt Report (RTE)

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14 thoughts on “Wait, Watt”

  1. Dr.Fart

    and front page on the government sponsored newspapers yesterday “Holohan pay was never going to come from the health board”, usually newspapers have to hold other people responsible for lying, but theyre printing them on the front page.

    also sick of the “this is normal” line about things like this. maybe it is normal, but its exactly the kind of normal that we voted to change from in the last general election. the same normal that FF/FG promised they’d deliver change from.

    1. Dinkum

      At the end of the day Holohan has been shafted
      I do not like the man but the guff surrounding this sudden no job whatever could power ringsend for a year in power

  2. Sara

    Robert Watt clears Robert Watt of any wrongdoing. I’m convinced. Though no doubt the conspiraloons will be on here arguing differently.

    1. scottser

      more importantly, it takes the heat off donnelly which i presume was the whole point of the report.

  5. SOQ

    So the main actor in the CoVid response decides to pop off and nobody told the government? Yeah sure.

  7. Mr. T

    If Trinity had proposed the role and paid the salary, would Holohan have been in breach of public-private cooldown period? Or does it not apply to Trinity?

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