Committee to grill senior civil servants over aborted Holohan move to TCD

Oireachtas finance committee agreed unanimously to seek all documents, minutes, and emails relating to the process

The Oireachtas finance committee members are 'united in seeking answers' regarding the process that would have seen Tony Holohan stand down as chief medical officer and become a professor of public health at Ireland’s oldest university. Picture: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie

The Oireachtas finance committee is to haul in three top civil servants to grill them on the aborted secondment of Tony Holohan to Trinity College Dublin (TCD).

Robert Watt, secretary general at the Department of Health, who is at the heart of the controversy; Martin Fraser, secretary general to the Government, and David Maloney, secretary general at the Department of Public Expenditure are to be called before the committee on April 27.