Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 December 2020

Select Committee on Health

Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary)

Photo of Róisín ShortallRóisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

That is welcome because that is new, as far as I am concerned. I had not heard that before.

My final question is on that pressing issue on the need to create those public health consultant posts. It is the only specialty where they are not consultants. This year, of all years, given everything the public health people have been doing, let us not have a strike. Is the Minister prepared to upgrade the existing specialists, of whom there are only approximately 60, to give them consultant posts?

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