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Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has not yet received the report on circumstances of State chief medical officer Tony Holohan’ secondment from the Department of Health to an academic position in Trinity College Dublin.
Dr Holohan was appointed as professor of public health strategy at TCD on March 25th and announced on the same day he was stepping down as chief medical officer.
However, Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly only learned on April 5th (almost a fortnight afterwards) that he would continue to remain a departmental employee on a salary of €187,000 per annum. While he had no intention of returning to the role, his transfer was described as an “open-ended secondment”.
Following the disclosure, Taoiseach Micheál Martin announced that the appointment would be “paused” pending a report on the matter written by the secretary general of the department Robert Watt.
Mr Watt is understood to be the official who sanctioned the move.
Will report be published?
However, over the weekend, Dr Holohan announced he would not take up the TCD role but would retire from the department on July 1st.
Mr Watt’s report is due to be furnished to Mr Donnelly on Monday and then considered by the Government. A spokesman said that it is the intention to publish the report but said the Department was not yet in a position to say when that would occur.
Meanwhile, spokespeople for Mr Donnelly and the Taoiseach repeated that they had only learned of the secondment arrangement last Tuesday, April 5th, contrary to media reports at the weekend that suggested both were aware of the arrangement at an earlier date.