Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 October 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2024: National Treatment Purchase Fund
Financial Statements 2023: Beaumont Hospital Board
2:00 am
Ms Fiona Brady:
I will put my other hat on in Drogheda. Ms Coyle and Mr. Sweeney mentioned consultant contracts and work schedules earlier. All staff, particularly consultants who we are talking about here, have to sign a work schedule of what they are planning to do within core activity on a weekly basis in the acute hospital service. They will typically have two outpatient clinics, an on-call, a post-call and their specialty rounds. When those 37 hours are complete and they have completed all of their clinics, that typically means they have fulfilled their core activity hours.
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