Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 October 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive

9:30 am

Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

The entitlement under the contract is that if a consultant is called in from home, having been on call, to see one or more patients on a weekday before midnight, they are entitled to a two-hour compensatory rest period, and if they do not get to take that within a period, they are entitled to payment for it. They have to do the call-out, claim it and not be able to take it for operational reasons, and then they get a payment in lieu of those compensatory rest days. If that is after midnight during the week, it is three hours, and if it is at the weekend, the two hours becomes four or the three becomes six.