Belfast Telly | First pictures from picket lines across Northern Ireland as eleventh hour bid fails to end NHS walkout
"As it currently stands, while Mr Smith is in a position to gather additional funds, he cannot instruct the Northern Ireland Civil Service on how it should be spent. And the Department of Health has said there is no legal basis for it to allocate any additional funds from Westminster to be used to provide pay parity for health staff in Northern Ireland."
Belfast Telly | [IE] Hospital consultants to be offered 250,000-euro salary for public-only contract
"[']Consultants['] appointed since October 2012 are paid a lower rate, ranging from 135,600 to 187,700 euro per year, if they agree to work in public hospitals only."

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