Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 10 February 2005
128 Mr. O’Shea asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her proposals to put in place a recruitment mechanism whereby area medical officer posts which are vacant due to former area medical officers having transferred to another post within the Health Services Executive can be urgently filled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4399/05]
View answerThe public health doctors agreement 2003, signed up to by both management and the Irish Medical Organisation, provides that no future area medical officer vacancies which arise would be filled. The agreement did, however, provide for a substantial increase in the number of directors, specialists and senior medical officers in the public health and community health areas, as well as the introduction of ten new principal medical officer posts.
