A pay discrepancy among doctors is up for discussion at today's Irish Medical Organisation AGM.

The potential legal action specifically relates to the Government imposing "punitive" financial penalties on teachers after they took industrial action three years ago.

The Irish Medical Organisation has announced a €210m Government deal for general practice after long-running talks with the Department of Health.

Long-running talks to hammer out a new contract with GPs are set to conclude in the coming days, the Health Minister has confirmed.

The impact on tens of thousands of patients of escalating unrest in the health service continues today with members of the public asked not to use out of hours GP services as hundreds of family doctors gather in Dublin for a protest.

Fianna Fáil wants modest reductions in the Universal Social Charge as well as at least a €5 increase in the state pension in Budget 2019.

The Government’s €200m back-dated salary deal with thousands of hospital consultants will not have any knock-on benefits for lower paid public servants, a senior minister has claimed.

Union leaders are optimistic they can reverse pay gaps for public service workers that could potentially benefit up to 60,000 employees.

A doctors organisation still maintains cuts imposed on GPs’ fees to stabilise the State’s finances are far greater than that claimed by the Department of Health.

Government and unions to discuss disparity which adversely affects over 60,000 ‘new entrants’ to system

The Health Minister must intervene to avert strike action involving 7,500 health and social service workers next week, the Dáil heard.

Large swathes of the country are going to be left without any GP if supports are not given to doctors, according to the Irish College of General Practitioners.

Teachers have warned of more protests as they ramped up their campaign for equal pay yesterday.

An attempt to involve family doctors in reducing long waiting times for women with a distressing gynae- cological problem has failed after GPs said that they were not prepared to take on additional unpaid work.

The crisis in mental health has become a crisis in general practice, says the Irish College of General Practitioners.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has rejected claims from Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin that he is “screwing” staff working in State-funded hospices over pay increases.

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has delivered his Budget 2018 speech. We’ll bring you the main reaction from special-interest groups and others.

How many businesses can survive a drop in payments of 35%-40% from the main purchaser of its services? asks Dr Catherine O’Donohoe.  

Workers who vote to reject the widely accepted new public sector pay deal may be frozen out of pay increases and other benefits and face financial penalties, Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has warned.

Impact, the largest public service union in the country, has recommended acceptance of the new public service pay agreement.

The new public pay deal will buy the Government another three years of industrial peace. But the pacification of around 300,000 workers in the public sector has come at a cost, and a rather hefty one at that, says Elaine Loughlin.

The Government and public service unions have reached a draft agreement on a pay deal to succeed the Lansdowne Road Agreement.

A new pay deal is likely to be spread over three years because fiscal constraints means it will take longer to restore the cuts imposed on public sector workers under the Government’s emergency financial measures.

One of the country’s largest trade unions has voiced fears over the ongoing public sector pay talks, claiming that government plans would reduce incomes, rather than restore them.

The union representing low-paid civil servants has rejected the Government’s efficiencies “wishlist” outlined in the ongoing pay talks and warns there can be no further productivity deals.

When the negotiators enter talks on a new public service pay deal on Monday, the unions and management will clearly have very different aspirations for what the outcome will be a fortnight later, writes Stephen Rogers.

The National Association of General Practitioners has called on the Government to reverse FEMPI.

Labour leader Brendan Howlin has joined union representatives in demanding the acceleration of pay recovery as part of upcoming public sector negotiations.

I couldn’t care less what public sector workers are paid as long as the country can afford it, says Jim Power

Hyperbole is the order of the day for many but we have a moral duty to restore public sector pay to levels of 2007, says Labour Party leader Brendan Howlin

Almost 270,000 public sector staff face a hike in pension contributions to fund their ‘gold-plated’ schemes as the Government emphasises the economy is still recovering.

Some public-sector unions say their members are earning up to 60% less than they would in a similar role in the private sector.

After years of debate as to the perceived public-private sector pay differential, the Public Service Pay Commission has concluded the two sets of workers are relatively on a par.

Public sector unions demanding €1.4bn in pay restoration “must be realistic” or risk jeopardising the public finances, Government sources have warned.

The union representing low-paid civil servants has told its members to prepare themselves for industrial action if their pay demands are not met in the upcoming public-service pay talks.

Public service workers are being warned that upcoming talks on a new pay increase will be more complicated, because unions will not only have to convince the Government, but also the opposition.

Cash-strapped local authorities have to find millions of euro from their own resources to restore public servants’ pay.

Fine Gael is undermining the budgetary process by continuously “finding” money for public sector pay deals, it has been claimed.

The work of the Public Service Pay Commission will not be brought forward, despite growing calls for a new public sector deal early in the new year.

One of the country's largest unions has said that the Lansdowne Road Agreement has run its course.

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Minister Richard Bruton has told the Dáil that ministers will not be taking proposed €12,000 pay rises over the next three years, writes Elaine Loughlin of the Irish Examiner.