Public health officials frustrated at lack of progress on contracts

Despite the extra Covid-19 workload and increasing their productivity in general, as agreed last year, the extra money and the consultants' contracts have not materialized. File image

Public health specialists are becoming increasingly frustrated at the ongoing delay in securing better pay which was agreed to last year. 

Government is not fully behind a bid to pay public health specialists more money, according to The Irish Medical Organisation, which represents the specialists and had expected to be given details about enhanced consultant contracts today.