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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Louise Burne

Robert Watt says Stephen Donnelly was not told of Holohan secondment funding because of 'hack'

Department of Health Secretary General Robert Watt has suggested that Minister Stephen Donnelly was not made aware of funding for Dr Tony Holohan’s botched secondment because his “computer was hacked”.

During a fiery Oireachtas Finance Committee meeting, Mr Watt rejected most of the findings of a report into the secondment.

An external report, conducted by Maura Quinn, examined the circumstances around how the proposed role was developed.

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