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
Health 'No evidence’ that HSE plan to reduce waiting lists is working, Robert Watt tells new chief executiveThe secretary general at the Department of Health said funding could be reallocated unless executive provided evidence its initiative was working effectively
Health Covid advisory group to be scaled back after pandemic emergency declared overGroup has only met once this year, with no further meetings scheduled
Politics Michael Brennan: Watt stands battered but likely to survive Quinn report scareThe 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
Analysis John McGuinness: Our bureaucracy is a shambles overseen by managers while politicians are sidelinedPublic representatives are tired of taking the blame for decisions made by civil servants who do what they like
Politics Elaine Byrne: Tail is wagging the dog when civil servants tell politicians what to doA review of the former chief medical officer’s proposed secondment to Trinity lifts a lid on how government really operates
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
Health Robert Watt rejects key finding of Holohan report at Oireachtas committeeSecretary 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
Politics Stephen Donnelly says Tánaiste’s chief of staff ‘correct’ over Holohan secondment amid row with Robert WattDeirdre 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
Health McGrath and Donohoe express confidence in Watt over Holohan row as Tánaiste backs chief of staffMicheál 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
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“
Health Tony O’Brien: He got his wish to keep his job in health, but now Donnelly must produce resultsLengthening 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
Health Minister for Health wants to ‘finish the job’ in department after reshuffleMinister says progress is being made in health service, but a ‘huge amount of focus’ is still necessary
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
Health Tapes Reid told Watt to retract ‘unwarranted slurs’ on HSE following health tape revelationsThe 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
Health Tapes Department suspends Health Tapes whistleblower as investigation loomsShane Corr submitted several disclosures to the Public Accounts Committee in recent months after making recordings of department meetings
health €350m HSE surplus from under-recruitment will fund Covid costs and pay restorationThe 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
politics Holohan rebuked by Donnelly over Nphet replacement groupThe chief medical officer raised concerns over membership of the new advisory team, correspondence seen by the Business Post shows
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
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
