Health

Review into Holohan secondment to Trinity still not completed

Stephen Donnelly, the Minister for Health, ordered an external report into Holohan’s secondment to Trinity College Dublin, which was approved by Robert Watt

Tony Holohan: his secondment to a professorship at Trinity College would have seen the former CMO retaining his annual departmental salary of €187,000 while working at the university. Picture: RollingNews.ie

The external review process into the abandoned secondment of Tony Holohan, the former chief medical officer, remains ongoing more than four months after the controversy erupted.

In April, Stephen Donnelly, the Minister for Health, ordered an external report into Holohan’s secondment to Trinity College Dublin, which was approved by Robert Watt, the secretary general at the Department of Health.

Maura Quinn, the former chief executive of the Institute of Directors, was due to submit a ...