The main doctors’ union has warned its members will return to industrial action if the HSE fails to implement proposals designed to reduce junior doctors’ excessive working hours.

Non Consultant Hospital Doctor members of the Irish Medical Organisation have voted by 76% in support of settlement proposals negotiated under the auspices of the Labour Relations Commission.

Talks aimed at averting further strikes by junior doctors over excessively long shifts will resume in Dublin this morning.

A doctors’ union says the HSE only has itself to blame for its €105m deficit because it failed to implement already agreed cost- saving measures potentially worth hundreds of millions of euro.

Doctors have reacted with cynicism to health minister James Reilly’s promise to proactively address Ireland’s junior doctor crisis just hours before a major international probe into the issue was launched.

Graduate nurses are facing sub-standard pay rates for the first two years of their careers as part of a deal to secure other rights for the health sector.

Despite claims by the Labour Relations Commission chief that up to 10 unions that rejected Croke Park II may now vote in favour, the Government is continuing to draft legislation for pay cuts in case the majority of unions reject terms again.

The Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland has become the latest union to recommend its 17,000 members reject the terms of Croke Park II.

The Irish Medical Organisation has become the latest public service representative body to recommend its members reject the terms of Croke Park II.

The Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) has said that proposals being put forward for a new Croke Park deal will not be accepted by its members.

The HSE has repeated its warning that consultants who refuse to take part in work condition negotiations could face unilateral pay cuts.

A new deal struck with consultants, which includes a 30% cut in starting salaries for new consultants, will save €200m annually, the health minister has said.

The HSE is to cut the pay of new hospital consultants by 30%.