TDs are to write to the Department of Health about Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan’s new career salary.
He is starting as a professor in Trinity College this summer but it has emerged his pay will still be footed from the public purse as he will be on “secondment.” Sinn Fein health spokesman David Cullinane said the Dail’s health committee want an explanation.
Independent Mattie McGrath accused Taoiseach Micheal Martin of looking after his “friend”.
