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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
John Lahart: That is an important distinction.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
John Lahart: The embargo does not apply to consultants.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
John Lahart: The IMO represents doctors.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
John Lahart: How does the IMO represent them? Do they pay a membership fee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
John Lahart: Does that include the non-consultant----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
John Lahart: I am grateful for the statements and answers the witnesses have given. I will be hopping all over. There is a headline figure. The witnesses said that 80% of interns leave. That is a dramatic figure. They also said that 75% of them return, which is also a headline figure. We are focused on the 80%, but 75% of them return. In their statement, the witnesses say that Australia, Canada,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
John Lahart: There is a big rush to answer this one.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
John Lahart: The witnesses have thrown out many statements here. I will come to another few if I can.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
John Lahart: I will ask this, because the witnesses have had free rein and have thrown out many generalised statements without evidence to back some of them up. The headline statement is that 80% leave but the witnesses also said that 75% return.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
John Lahart: Some 75% return. The witnesses made the statement that 80% leave. I could interrogate that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
John Lahart: That is fine. The witnesses made a blanket statement and it has been left out there. The witnesses said 75% return. Is that "Yes" or "No"?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
John Lahart: There are many reasons people leave. One is the cultural and social experience that young people have. I am not denying that there are work pressures and things like that for teachers, nurses and so on. Since I joined the meeting 45 minutes ago, the whole discussion has shifted to this. Does the IMO support the public-only consultant contract?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
John Lahart: Did the IMO support it? Did it recommend it to members?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
John Lahart: Okay, but the IMO did not recommend it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
John Lahart: Some 50% of consultants accepted it and signed up to it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
John Lahart: How representative of doctors is the IMO if it does not recommend a contract and then 50% of its members take up that contract? If I was a representative organisation and recommended against a contract, I would be worried that 50% of my members-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
John Lahart: The IMO did not recommend for it and 50% of its membership actually-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
John Lahart: Some 50% of consultants have signed the contract.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
John Lahart: The figures I have here, which were presented in a briefing we received this morning, show that 2,278 signed up to the public service contract-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)
John Lahart: -----and 2,309 have not.