Should NPHET be disbanded ?

Fauci is competent.

Holohan is a failed civil servant, after a disastrous reign at cervical check, he got a cushy CMO job, nobody saw the pandemic coming, otherwise he wouldn’t have been left in such an important role.

Holohan has ignored government commissioned advice from professor Ferguson. Holohan has frequently given advice which runs totally contradictory to the CMOs of the other 27 EU countries.

Micheal Martin has abdicated responsibility and Holohan has been put on a pedestal. The only way for the government to take back charge is to break up NPHET and take advice separately from experts and the have the government decide how to proceed.

It does, it's more or less what the UK government had to do also. (I'm not suggesting they are a model to follow)

The problem with NPHET is that all the specialities report into Holohan, he then gives public advice, the government then have a binary decision go with Holohan or go against him. What happened last Christmas shocked us all with the virulence of the British Variant, the government went against Holohan and have been licking their wounds since. What would be better is to have the data modelling done by a science team, the medical stuff done by doctors (incl. Holohan) and the reporting of numbers to be done by the CSO, HSE should be giving advice on capacity etc. all directly to the government, then it is a political decision, and citizens views have to be accounted for. That way the government can come out and say we have taken advice from all the experts and our conclusion is ........ they way forward is ........ If they get it wrong we get rid of them.

Look at Trump, he got expert advice, ignored it, then got voted out of office. Trump failed to install himself as a dictator.

Holohan has ignored expert advice when it doesn't suit his narrative (e.g. Antigen Testing), how do I vote him out of office?

Just speculating here, but I doubt people in many countries even know the name of their CMO, let alone make "(Obama) HOPE" posters of them.

citizens views should never be accounted for when it comes to an issue like this

Sorry this is a democracy, not a theocracy. Maybe move to Iran??

the CMO was right to ignore antigen Testing, based on the evidence provided.

You are delusional, or just a Tony fan boy.

Professor Mark Ferguson, Director General, Science Foundation Ireland and Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government of Ireland, chaired a report into the use of Antigen Testing.

• Professor Paddy Mallon, Professor of Microbial Diseases UCD, Consultant in Infectious Diseases, St Vincent’s University Hospital and Director of the UCD Centre for Experimental Pathogen Host Research
• Professor Mary Horgan, President of Royal College of Physicians in Ireland, Professor, School of Medicine, UCC. Consultant in Infectious Diseases, Cork University Hospital
• Professor Kingston Mills, Professor of Experimental Immunology, Trinity College Dublin and Director Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute
• Dr Lorraine Doherty, National Clinical Director Health Protection, Health Service Executive*
• Dr Darina O’Flanagan, Former Director of the Health Protection Surveillance Centre; Special adviser to NPHET at Department of Health*

The report had a majority finding that Ireland should rollout antigen testing with immediate effect.

*Indicates member does not support report (the two dissenting voices were and still are on the main NPHET board and are direct reports to Tony, I would guess Tony pressured them)

Watch this video from the Oireachtas Transport Committee https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1405157995068207109 NPHET talk about putting kerrygold onto the Covid tests to invalidate them, they had the time to come up with this embarrassing farce, yet on media questioning later that day Ronan Glynn admitted that they had not read / discussed the outcome of the Prof Fergusson report. Tony didn't want to hear science. He wants to hear about putting kerrygold butter onto covid tests....

Tony Holohan, rejected this science and went with his gut. Antigen Testing is snake oil... despite every other country in the world using them, and infact the EU sort of mandated that Ireland had to start following the science in order to qualify for Covid grants, hence the HSE are now pushing ahead with testing against NPHET advice.

The individual functions of the group work reasonable ok, however they all report to Tony, I presume Tony put pressure on Philip Nolan to tweet that Antigen Tests were snake oil. Philip Nolan has no qualification or experience to make such a judgement, he is a medical doctor and was a surgical intern before returning to academia. A smart guy, but he is not the right guy to be doing the modelling. A data science or data engineer would be much better running the models for NPHET, I think at this stage all of NPHETS modelling has now been debunked? If I want my appendix out, I'll go to a surgeon, If I want some data modelled, I'll go to a data modeller not a surgeon. More importantly, data modelling must be independent of NPHET otherwise you get confirmation bias.

I know it was early days, but "It might be higher risk to wear a mask, so don't" and "Continue to visit nursing homes, isolation would be worse on residents than covid" were just another two of Tony's greatest hits. Can't remember the quote but when Tony was quizzed about how the Central Statistics Office put the covid death at a lower number than NPHET, he just shouted them down, Tony is above scrutiny, a deity our saviour...

It was never merely a public health issue - there were always any number of aspects to it and the reaction. That is why illegal, unconstitutional means such as imprisoning the population and issuing diktats as to how we must live our lives was always wrong, immoral and unlawful - and always shall be. Totalitarianism is the true disease.