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Michael Scanlan

Secretary General of the Department of Health and Children

Michael Scanlan was appointed Secretary General of the Department of Health and Children in April 2005.

He was educated in Templeogue College and joined the civil service as an Executive Officer in 1973. He has spent most of his career in the former Department of the Public Service and in the Department of Finance. He was Secretary to the “Gleeson” and “Buckley” Review Bodies on public sector remuneration. Later he dealt with overall public service pay policy including pay policy within the health sector.

Michael was promoted to Assistant Secretary in December 2000. He was responsible for overall public expenditure policy, the expenditure aspects of the Sustaining Progress social partnership agreement and Government's decentralisation programme.

As an Assistant Secretary, Michael was also responsible for public expenditure policy within the health sector and worked closely with the Department of Health and Children on the health sector structural reform programme, including the establishment of the Health Service Executive, and on a number of major health policy issues.