Yesterday, the Secretary General of the Department of Health, Mr. Robert Watt, appeared before the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach over the botched attempt to arrange an open-ended secondment of Dr. Tony Holohan, up until his retirement, with €20 million of public money assigned to that secondment. The external review commissioned by the Minister for Health was very critical of Mr. Watt but also critical of Dr. Holohan. I note the Government has accepted all the findings of that review. It was stated in the review that Mr. Watt bypassed all the acceptable protocols for research funding in respect of the Chief Medical Officer, CMO. It stated he should not have been involved exclusively and personally in negotiations with university partners regarding this secondment.

A lot of time and money was spent on this review. The Tánaiste stated that lessons would be learned. The Secretary General rejects the main findings of the report-----

Do you have a question, Deputy?

-----and its contents. What lessons will be learned? Will they be the same lessons learned when the Government tried to appoint Ms Katherine Zappone to a makey-up job? Will the Tánaiste explain what lessons will be learned regarding this matter, given the chief person rejects the findings?

To be fair to Sinn Féin, it has been quite adept at appointing people who are opposed to it to various state bodies and so on in Northern Ireland. I am not saying there is anything wrong with that, but it does that and has done it. The report does not personalise the recommendations, although it obviously draws conclusions-----

It does.

-----from the examination. The report states: "No one individual should be personally and exclusively involved in any negotiation with third parties which involves the dispersal of state funds." That is very clear. That relates generally to any situation into the future-----

It names the same-----

Wait now. One question.

-----and that will be accepted.

On a point of order-----

No, there is no point of order.

The Secretary General was clear yesterday, given the Government has accepted this, this has to be implemented and the recommendations have to be taken on board in respect of all parties.

It does name the CMO but-----

Please.