Under new consultant contracts, basic pay ranges from €209,919 to €252,000 per annum for a 37-hour week.
That is according to Dr Matthew Sadlier, who believes that the new public-only contracts being offered to consultants will not deliver the change necessary.
He said that this pay scale is in line with high quality healthcare systems abroad that attract Irish talent with better working conditions."We have surgeons who don't have sufficient theatre time in their contracts. We have, as we say, an overcrowded emergency department setting."We have roughly the same number of beds in our acute hospital system today that we had in the year 2000.
"But you won't be able to do the work at the weekends, you won't be able to get doctors to come in regularly on a Saturday morning to be effective unless you also have radiographers, nursing staff, occupational therapists and all the other health and social care professionals that require a health service to work.""You need a broad spectrum across the service in order to help discharges, in order to relieve the pressure.
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