Irish Medical Organisation opens High Court allowance challenge

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The Irish Medical Organisation opened a High Court challenge to the abolition of junior doctors’ Living Out Allowance, reported on 25 October 2016. The allowance was worth €61 a week and had been withdrawn from new entrants in 2012.

The IMO and Dr Gabriel Beecham claim the decision breached a 2010 settlement agreement, while the Ministers for Public Expenditure and Health and the Health Services Executive deny the claims. The action, before Mr Justice Paul McDermott, was continuing.