Consultant vacancies amendment
The Chair formally proposes a debate on unfilled consultant posts; Senator Thomas Byrne presses the amendment while also objecting to the exclusion of Meath and Cavan from the ESB undergrounding review.
Senator Thomas Byrne has proposed an amendment to the Order of Business, "That a debate on the lack of consultants in the health service and the number of vacancies which remain unfilled be taken after No. 1."
Comment on this
I would have proposed another amendment if I had known counties Meath and Cavan were to be excluded from the ESB's review of the underground option. I have only just found this out.