Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Under the law, consultants are perfectly entitled to be recruited on contracts of indefinite duration from the start. My sense is that there is no plan. I understand what happens when someone cannot be recruited. Someone who does not have the required qualification is then brought in. Should that not be on the proviso that the person concerned will attain the necessary qualification, particularly as we all know that the recruitment processes are not exactly shining lights? People recruited under that system are accruing an entitlement, as they should, under a contract of indefinite duration. That is how many consultants are being recruited. I do not get any sense that there is any will to tackle this issue.