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Robert Watt

BP Exclusive

Stephen Donnelly’s high-stakes move to unwind medics’ stranglehold on health service

Emergency changes to rosters at weekends have been shown to reduce hospital trolley numbers but HSE chief Bernard Gloster and health minister Stephen Donnelly can expect stiff resistance in their bid to introduce weekend work on a permanent basis
  • Cónal Thomasand
  • Daniel Murray
  • June 11, 2023
Health

'No evidence’ that HSE plan to reduce waiting lists is working, Robert Watt tells new chief executive

The secretary general at the Department of Health said funding could be reallocated unless executive provided evidence its initiative was working effectively
  • Cónal Thomas
  • June 7, 2023

Simply Better
Back to School

Delicious recipes by Neven Maguire

Health

Covid advisory group to be scaled back after pandemic emergency declared over

Group has only met once this year, with no further meetings scheduled
  • Cónal Thomas
  • May 10, 2023
Politics

Michael Brennan: Watt stands battered but likely to survive Quinn report scare

The testy secretary general of the Department of Health still has the confidence of the minister, and will have learned a lesson in the importance of communication
  • Michael Brennan
  • April 22, 2023
Analysis

John McGuinness: Our bureaucracy is a shambles overseen by managers while politicians are sidelined

Public representatives are tired of taking the blame for decisions made by civil servants who do what they like
  • John McGuinness
  • April 22, 2023
Politics

Elaine Byrne: Tail is wagging the dog when civil servants tell politicians what to do

A review of the former chief medical officer’s proposed secondment to Trinity lifts a lid on how government really operates
  • Elaine Byrne
  • April 22, 2023
Health

Watt’s position in question after he rejects report findings, Martin told

Tanaiste Micheál Martin also noted that Watt himself has pledged to implement the recommendations of Maura Quinn’s report
  • Michael Brennan
  • April 20, 2023
Health

Robert Watt rejects key finding of Holohan report at Oireachtas committee

Secretary general at the Department of Health says it was ‘very clear what we were trying to achieve was a public interest measure’ on appointment of former chief medical officer to role at Trinity College Dublin
  • Michael Brennan
  • April 19, 2023
Politics

Stephen Donnelly says Tánaiste’s chief of staff ‘correct’ over Holohan secondment amid row with Robert Watt

Deirdre Gillane has become embroiled in a row with Donnelly’s own Secretary General at the Department of Health over claims made by the latter that she was aware of the details around the open-ended secondment
  • Cónal Thomas
  • April 19, 2023
Health

McGrath and Donohoe express confidence in Watt over Holohan row as Tánaiste backs chief of staff

Micheál Martin said Deirdre Gillane’s ‘presentation cannot be questioned’ in a dispute between her and Robert Watt while Paschal Donohoe and Michael McGrath both expressed confidence in secretary general of Department of Health
  • Michael Brennanand
  • Donal MacNamee
  • April 18, 2023
Health

Holohan secondment ‘by-passed’ protocols for research funding, Quinn review finds

Report finds former Chief Medical Officer should not have been "exclusively personally involved in the negotiation of research funding linked to his possible secondment“
  • Cónal Thomasand
  • Michael Brennan
  • April 17, 2023
Health

Tony O’Brien: He got his wish to keep his job in health, but now Donnelly must produce results

Lengthening waiting lists, record high trolley counts and too few healthcare staff are just some of the problems that the minister needs to deal with urgently
  • Tony O'Brien
  • December 24, 2022
Health

Minister for Health wants to ‘finish the job’ in department after reshuffle

Minister says progress is being made in health service, but a ‘huge amount of focus’ is still necessary
  • Daniel Murray
  • November 13, 2022
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
  • Cónal Thomas
  • August 27, 2022
Health Tapes

Reid told Watt to retract ‘unwarranted slurs’ on HSE following health tape revelations

The soon-to-depart HSE boss warned its secretary general that the ‘disparaging and damaging manner’ in which his staff were referred to on a whistleblower’s recordings had caused bad feeling within the organisation
  • Ken Foxeand
  • Aaron Rogan
  • July 2, 2022
Health Tapes

Department suspends Health Tapes whistleblower as investigation looms

Shane Corr submitted several disclosures to the Public Accounts Committee in recent months after making recordings of department meetings
  • Aaron Roganand
  • Daniel Murray
  • May 28, 2022
health

€350m HSE surplus from under-recruitment will fund Covid costs and pay restoration

The HSE’s 10,000-staff recruitment target became the subject of controversy in February, when the Business Post revealed that an official in the department had called it ‘batshit’ in an internal meeting
  • Donal MacNamee
  • May 19, 2022
politics

Holohan rebuked by Donnelly over Nphet replacement group

The chief medical officer raised concerns over membership of the new advisory team, correspondence seen by the Business Post shows
  • Cónal Thomas
  • May 13, 2022

Holohan signals willingness to reconsider academic role

Chief Medical Officer says he would ‘prefer to be in a different situation in terms of where this has ended up’ during questioning on abandoned secondment to Trinity College
  • Daniel Murray
  • May 4, 2022

Watt says cancellation of Holohan’s TCD post a ‘matter of regret’

Top civil servant to tell politicians details around funding of chief medical officer’s salary yet to be agreed
  • Donal MacNamee
  • May 3, 2022

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