Minister McGrath announces 20 projects to be funded under Public Service Innovation Fund
20 diverse projects have successfully secured funding from this year’s call for ideas under the Public Service Innovation Fund
, an initiative of the Our Public Service 2020 reform strategy for development and innovation in the Public Service.
The Fund, which was established in 2019, is a competition designed to support innovative ideas from public service bodies to promote collaboration and new and better approaches to service delivery.
This year’s call saw a total of 279 project proposals received from organisations in all sectors of the Public Service - Civil Service, Defence Forces, Education Sector, Health Sector, Local Government, Justice Sector and Non-Commercial State Agencies.
Mater Hospital new Major Trauma Centre
The Mater Misericordiae Hospital, located on Dublin’s north inner city, has been announced as the Major Trauma Centre for the Central Network (April 27).
St Vincent’s University Hospital and Tallaght University Hospital, both on the southside of Dublin, have been designated as the two Trauma Units for the Central Region.
Under the ‘A Trauma System for Ireland’ report, the Trauma Policy for Ireland Steering group recommended creating a “hub and spoke” model of care with two regional trauma networks, each with a major trauma centre and trauma units.
Cork University Hospital has already been identified as the Major Trauma Centre for the South Major Trauma Network. Trauma care for children is to be provided at the new children’s hospital which is to be the paediatric Major Trauma Centre.
New national breast cancer GP referral guideline issued imt.ie - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from imt.ie Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Former Davy Group chief executive Tony Garry has resigned as chairman and director of BES Management, a joint venture between Davy and BDO for managing investments under the Employment and Investment Incentive Scheme (EIIS).
He departed the board of the company on March 8, just six days after Davy was fined €4.13m and reprimanded by the Central Bank for a controversial 2014 bond deal in which he participated. His resignation was confirmed by a spokesperson for BES.
The news follows his departure from the board of the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, which was reported in the
Sunday Independent, and the resignation of his colleague Brian McKiernan from the provost’s council at Trinity College Dublin and the governing council of the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital in Dublin.
Updated: 13 Mar 2021, 16:59
WITH the topic of disinformation becoming more and more prevalent, I thought I’d help bring you up to speed on the subject of ‘deepfakes’.
Deepfakes use high-end computer programming to make a video where the subject, content or message is contrary to what the speaker may have meant.
2
It could even be a pure fabrication from the outset.
To look into this more, I spoke to visual effects expert and digital rights campaigner Aidan O’Brien who has worked in the field of digital media for over 20 years.
He raised the recent example of several deepfake videos of Tom Cruise.