PAC and Finance Committee to combine probe into health official salary

The former secretary general at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Robert Watt, has moved to the Department of Health on an interim basis on his previous salary of €211,000. Picture: Oireachtas TV/PA Wire 

The Dáil’s two most powerful committees are to combine their investigations into the proposed €292,000 salary for a top health official.

The Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has already called for the process of the appointment to be halted and its chair Brian Stanley met John McGuinness, chair of the Oireachtas Finance Committee at the behest of the Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaíl.