Consultants warn of industrial action over two-tier pay

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The IMO has said GPs are responding positively to a new deal, which would see around 400,000 people with chronic conditions entitled to a special care package |

Consultants attending the annual conference of the Irish Medical Organisation in Killarney have warned of potential industrial action, if the Government does not end the two-tier pay system for specialists. Addressing the conference, Minister for Health Simon Harris said that a process will be established to deal with the issue.

Speaking after the Mr Harris’ speech, IMO President, Dr Padraig McGarry, said they would be writing to Mr Harris to seek a formal start to the process He said the time to sort out the issue was now, adding that the IMO would be moving quickly to begin the process to end two-tier pay.The union’s GP Group went into private session at the IMO annual conference Kerry this morning to discuss the proposals.

 

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SimonHarrisTD And we all know what Simon says and Simon likes.... Don't we 🙄. Failure upon failure.

And they are getting well paid for it

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