Written answers
Tuesday, 22 November 2005
Department of Health and Children
Hospital Staff
10:00 pm
Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 113: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to introduce public only contracts for consultants in public hospitals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35420/05]
Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The report of the Commission on Financial Management and Control Systems in the Health Service, the Brennan report, recommended that the health service should "recruit a substantial proportion of Consultants on a public-only contract". The issue of the public-private mix will be one of the priority issues addressed in the impending consultant contract negotiations. In this context the recommendations of the Brennan report will inform the management position in the negotiations.
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