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Mon 05 May 2007New hospital consultant salary costed at €250,000The Department of Health estimated that salary levels for new hospital consultants would be about €250,000 per year, an internal Department of Health briefing document, which was released yesterday, indicated.The document, drawn up for Department of Health secretary general Michael Scanlan in October 2005, suggested that the salary cost of appointing 100 additional consultants would be €25 million per year.