Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 October 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion

Dr. Rita Doyle:

I cannot answer the Deputy's second question. We do not have specific data on people who are in private or public practice. I suppose medicine was always a hierarchical career. The consultants are under huge pressure. I am not blaming them because they are not doing all the bullying but I think that the circumstances in which they work, the lack of respect from HR - as long as I am around, young doctors have been in training that changed every six months or every year, yet at least 20% of them are put on emergency tax twice a year. It is just stupid. These are young people who have to pay their rent and feed their kids but they get very little support from HR. That is part of it.

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