Tony Holohan officially steps down as CMO today

Dr Tony Holohan will retire from his role as Chief Medical Officer today.

He was due to begin a secondment at Trinity College Dublin, but that was scrapped after a controversy over the payment arrangement.

Instead he’ll completely step down today as CMO, which has a salary of 187,000 euro a year.

Junior Health Minister, Frank Feighan, says he had an excellent 14-year term:

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