Hospital consultants want pay increases of up to €50,000

HOSPITAL consultants want their pay levels to at least match High Court judges’ salaries.

The consultants, who are arguing for a pay increases of up to €50,000, claim it is due to them because of the unprecedented level of change that has occurred in the health services in recent years.

They say consultants at the upper end of the pay scale should get slightly in excess of the current salary of a High Court judge and secretary general of a government department.