Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

This was moving fast. Our public health consultants, doctors and public health specialists have been looking for this for decades for all sorts of reasons, for example, for professional recognition, professional standing and the money they earn, which is approximately €111,000 or €113,000 at the moment. Their consultant colleagues on A contracts are earning tens of thousands more than that and, indeed, the Sláintecare contract, when it comes in, will be a significant increase again. They have worked hard this year. Never has it been more obvious how important the public health groups are.