Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 March 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion

2:20 pm

Photo of Mary Mitchell O'ConnorMary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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In a way I am very uncomfortable debating this issue, because my son is a doctor. However, I know for a fact that junior doctors are working those hours. My son works day and night; he never gets home and it is really tough.

Professor Crown put the facts in his supplemental comment. I do not get it. We train doctors, but we do not give them jobs and export them. The taxpayer forks out the money for this.