The report into the secondment of the former Chief Medical Officer was published yesterday. The Government has had the benefit of this report for a number of months. Will the recommendations of the report be implemented to ensure appointments such as this in future will be done in a structured, open and transparent way? Will there be any consequences for the failure to implement established protocols?

I thank Deputy Troy. I welcome the report from the independent reviewer Ms Maura Quinn. It is important to say the report does not make findings against any individual and, in fact, points out that those involved acted in good faith. We should not forget that the secondment never happened. It did not happen in the end. Lessons have to be learned from this and a number of these have been identified in the report to ensure that any future proposed secondment will be handled properly. The recommendations in the report have been accepted by the Government and the Minister for Health has written to the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to ensure that processes around secondments are clearly defined in future so we do not have a repeat of this.