Pressure mounts to halt appointment of  top health official on €292k salary

Proposed pay packet is €81,000 more than top secretaries general receive

Robert Watt has moved to the Department of Health as general secretary on an interim basis. 

Political pressure is mounting for the process to appoint a new top health official on a salary of €292,000 a year to be halted.

The chairs of two Oireachtas committees are to meet today to see if they can avoid clashing over their investigations into the proposed salary level.