The Government is transferring its Chief Science Advisor to a new position in light of a controversy that he obtained a bogus degree from an online US university.

Fresh questions have been raised as a result of a probe by the Department of Enterprise into the status of the American doctoral degree obtained by the Government’s Chief Science Adviser, Dr Barry McSweeney.

ENTERPRISE Minister Micheál Martin has commissioned two major reports to help realise Government targets for private and public investment in research.