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

2:30 pm

Photo of Jerry ButtimerJerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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In the context of changing the rostering arrangements and hours worked, is there a need to introduce a clock-in, clock-out system, whereby doctors would have to leave at designated times? There was a big controversy involving Cork University Hospital, detailed in various newspapers this week, about forms and payments. Is it the case that doctors decided to stay, rather than go home, after they had worked their rostered hours? I raised this issue at a meeting of the health forum in Cork yesterday.