The Health Research Board (HRB) has been cited in the briefing paper about the proposed CMO secondment as the potential conduit for funding.

The HRB wishes to clarify that it was not involved in any discussion around this post and has received no correspondence from either the Department of Health or Trinity College in relation to funding the CMO secondment.

The Minister has announced his intention to carry out an external review in respect of the proposed secondment and research proposal and the HRB will cooperate fully with this review should we be requested to do so.