Funding of Holohan secondment 'needed to be worked out', Watt to tell committee

Department of Health secretary general to appear before Oireachtas health committee on Wednesday morning to discuss the botched Trinity appointment

Robert Watt will say that an offer of €2m a year to fund Dr Tony Holohan's move to Trinity as a professor of public health was something that 'the department considered... was something that needed to be worked out'. File picture: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie

Funding details around the secondment of chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan to Trinity College Dublin were "to be agreed", the secretary general of the Department of Health will tell an Oireachtas committee.

Robert Watt and Dr Holohan will appear before the Oireachtas health committee on Wednesday morning to discuss the botched appointment.