Councillors ‘off health boards from June’

NEWLY-ELECTED councillors will not be appointed to health boards after June’s local elections, Health Minister Micheál Martin confirmed yesterday.

The country’s 11 health boards will be abolished next January and replaced by a semi-State body, the Health Service Executive (HSE), to drive the reform of the services.

Mr Martin revealed yesterday that the Government has decided health boards will be run by the chief executives without local or professional representation for the six months between June and December of this year.