Robert Watt: ‘It is a matter of regret to me that, what I viewed as an important and innovative proposal for increasing our public health capacity in Ireland, is not now going ahead’. Picture: Bryan Meade
Robert Watt, the secretary general of the Department of Health, will tomorrow tell TDs the funding of Tony Holohan’s now-cancelled professorship post at Trinity College Dublin was to be agreed between the university, the Department of Health and the Health Research Board . Watt will tomorrow appear in front of the Oireachtas health committee where he will tell members that it is a “matter of regret” to him that the appointment of Holohan,...