‘Critical mass’ of GPs needed for new deal

By Gary Culliton. The IMO has called on the Government to implement the State’s commitment to amend Section 4 of the Competition Act without delay. According to immediate past President Dr Ronan Boland, in no other country the IMO has come across “does the interpretation of competition law that we have here apply”. The IMO has sought legal advice on the matter, he added, which would give a “degree of confidence, but only a degree of confidence” that the union might be successful in the event of taking a case. “Such a legal action would be extremely expensive and the…