Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation

Photo of Neasa HouriganNeasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I want to return to the working hours issue. The IMO is reviewing, with its own members, the numbers. I am trying to understand the data issue and how reliable the data is. There has been discussion in previous years around how much we can rely on the data that the HSE both records and receives, and that when there is union action, that has an impact on it. It seems that there have been examples of the HSE recording rostered hours rather than the hours that truly were worked. I am under the impression that since November last, the HSE was under a requirement from the European working time directive to undertake some serious work on that data collection. Does the IMO know whether that is happening? Are the IMO's members reporting that it is happening? Is the HSE communicating that it is happening to them?

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