Eamon Gilmore
Question:38 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of non-permanent consultants providing specialist service in the public sector; if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties that long-term non-permanent consultants will have regarding their exclusion from the specialist register of the Medical Council which is due to be mandatory by January 2003; the steps he intends to take to resolve these difficulties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19202/01]