Taoiseach 'unaware' Trinity was offered €2m funding as part of Holohan secondment

'There are clearly lessons to be learned from all of this,' said Taoiseach Micheál Martin. Picture: Shane O’Neill, Coalesce.

The Taoiseach has said that he was unaware that Trinity College Dublin (TCD) was offered a €2m ringfenced funding arrangement as part of the secondment of outgoing chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan.

The offer of the funding will be the focus of both the independent review ordered by the Taoiseach and the Oireachtas Committee on Public Expenditure which agreed on Thursday to invite Mr Watt, government secretary Martin Fraser and Health Minister Stephen Donnelly to appear before it on April 27.