Sacked doctor gets €100k package plus job back

A SENIOR medical officer, who was unlawfully sacked by the HSE because of the Government’s moratorium on recruitment, is to be re-engaged and given a back pay and pension package of about €100,000.

Judge Jacqueline Linnane yesterday upheld an Employment Appeals Tribunal award to Dr Molly Sengupta, Allendale Lawn, Clonsilla, Dublin, who had worked as a paediatrician with the HSE in the North West Dublin region.

Marguerite Bolger SC, for Dr Sengupta, told the Circuit Civil Court that the doctor had been employed in March 2007 on a temporary contract to fill a vacant post pending the permanent filling of the position.