'Undervalued' public health doctors to get update on long-awaited pay deal

Their new contracts should have been in place by July, and tomorrow the Irish Medical Organisation will meet Department of Health officials to find out when - if at all - the contracts are coming in. Picture: Pexels

Public health specialists tomorrow expect to hear when the government intends to honour a pay deal struck more than a year ago.

The specialists, who have been campaigning for the new contracts for the past 17 years, were labelled as "the unsung heroes" in the Irish health service for more than 20 years by Acting Chief Medical Officer Ronan Glynn at Monday's Covid-19 briefing.