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Mon 04 Apr 2007Consultants vote not to return to talks with HSEHospital consultants yesterday voted not to return to contract negotiations with the HSE until they receive a "guaranteed undertaking" that all new appointments will be made under the current contract or an agreed new contract.At an extraordinary general meeting of the Irish Hospital Consultants' Association (IHCA) in Dublin, 450 delegates also passed a motion of no confidence in Minister for Health Mary Harney, and confirmed plans to ballot members on what they call "slowburner" industrial action in the coming weeks.