Matt Carthy

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Robert Watt was previously secretary general at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. File photograph: The Irish Times

Sinn Féin has claimed the appointment of Robert Watt as secretary general of the Department of Health would have “hallmarks of an old-fashioned stroke(...)

 Moore Street in Dublin city centre. Photograph:  Nick Bradshaw

The Dáil has been warned that plans to regenerate the Moore Street area of Dublin should not result in it being turned into another Temple Bar with st(...)

More than €200,000 incurred by body that will run National Children’s Hospital did not comply with State procurement rules

Members of the Dáil’s spending watchdog have raised questions about more than €200,000 worth of website and PR costs incurred by Children’s Health Ire(...)

A file image showing  Garda recruits at the  Garda College in Templemore. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times

The EU’s anti-fraud agency Olaf has told the Dáil’s spending watchdog that its investigation into the use of European funds at the Garda Training Coll(...)

Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue. File photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

Fianna Fáil TD Jackie Cahill has questioned the “logic” of bringing the Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue before TDs and Senators to be qui(...)

Sinn Fein TD Imelda Munster  was told the Office of Government Procurement  does not collect data on tenders awarded, projects completed on time and  whether they were completed at expected costs. Photograph: Cyril Byrn

Public money was spent in an “absolute scamble” for supplies as Covid-19 hit Ireland last year, the Public Accounts Committee has been told. The com(...)

Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue said any breaches would be taken seriously. File photograph: Julien Behal

Concerns have been raised in the Dáil that meat-processing plants are not putting public health quarantine restrictions in place for workers being flo(...)

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar said in the Dáil that the process to appoint a new permanent secretary general at the Department of Health will continue.

The recruitment process for a new Department of Health secretary general is set to continue despite a request from the Dáil spending watchdog to delay(...)

 Michael McGrath: “I would like to clarify for the committee that Mr Watt had no input into my sanctioning of the salary of €292,000 to apply for the open competition for the substantive post.” Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Michael McGrath has said senior civil servant Robert Watt had “no input” into the sanctioning of an increas(...)

Sinn Féin TD Matt Carthy: said the PAC has an obligation to look into matter and  questioned whether the salary level increase can be reversed.  Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

The decision to raise the salary level of the next secretary general of the Department of Health by more than €90,000 “stinks to the high heavens”, a (...)

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