asked the Minister for Health the causes of the delay in sanctioning salary increases for county physicians, mental hospital medical staffs and district hospital medical officers which he mentioned in a statement to the Dáil some months ago.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Salary Increases of Medical Staffs.
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I presume the reference in the question is to the reply which I made to a question by Deputy Faulkner on 16th November last.
The question and the reply mentioned had reference to county physicians, county surgeons and dispensary doctors. As I explained in the course of the reply, the revision of salary scales for such officers is a matter for the appropriate health authority in the first instance. With a single exception, all proposals received from such authorities for revision of the salaries of these officers were approved without delay.
I have not received from health authorities any proposals for the revision of the salaries of mental hospital or district hospital medical staffs.