Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has appointed an external expert to conduct an independent review into the now abandoned secondment of Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan to a professorship at Trinity College Dublin.
The review will be undertaken by Maura Quinn, the outgoing chief executive of the Institute of Directors, and is expected to be completed by June.
Minister Donnelly said: “Ms. Quinn has offered to carry out this review Pro Bono and will report back to me in June.