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Fórsa</h1></div></div></div></div><h2 class="b-it-subheadline ">Union members voted for industrial action following decision by HSE to pause recruitment of clerical and administrative staff</h2></div><div class="c-grid b-it-right-rail-advanced__rail-container"><div class="c-stack b-it-right-rail-advanced__main-interior-item " data-style-direction="vertical" data-style-justification="start" data-style-alignment="unset" data-style-inline="false" data-style-wrap="nowrap"><div class="c-stack b-it-right-rail-advanced__main-interior-item-1" data-style-direction="vertical" data-style-justification="start" data-style-alignment="unset" data-style-inline="false" data-style-wrap="nowrap"><div class="c-grid b-it-lead-art__wrapper"><figure class="c-media-item b-it-lead-art"><div class="b-it-lead-art__image-wrapper" style="aspect-ratio:1024 / 683"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Fórsa organiser Ashley Connolly says clerical staff feel 'angry' and 'undervalued'." class="c-image 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to carry out the work of those roles. </p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Yesterday members of the union working in clerical and administrative roles in the Health Service Executive (HSE) voted for industrial action following a decision by the HSE to halt all recruitment of clerical and administrative staff.</p><div id="arcad-feature-f0ffkTty6QNr1mi-3-4-8-1860704df727eb" class="default__StyledAdUnit-sc-1moicrg-0 gKEhzJ arcad-feature"><div class="arcad-container width_100" style="max-width:300px"><div id="arcad_f0ffkTty6QNr1mi-3-4-8-1860704df727eb" class="arcad ad-300x250"></div></div></div><p class="c-paragraph paywall">About 12,000 clerical and administrative workers will take part in the industrial action. </p><p class="c-paragraph paywall"><a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/forsa/">Fórsa</a> said 93 per cent of its members who participated in a ballot on the proposed industrial action voted in favour of it. 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The HSE is too quick to look to external private consultants to be able to deliver work that should be done in-house. And instead of addressing that overspend, what they have done is put in place a harsh recruitment pause on Fórsa members only.”</p><div id="arcad-feature-f0fF3YXEzrty1PE-3-4-3-ae7fe607d982b" class="default__StyledAdUnit-sc-1moicrg-0 gKEhzJ arcad-feature"><div class="arcad-container width_100" style="max-width:550px"><div id="arcad_f0fF3YXEzrty1PE-3-4-3-ae7fe607d982b" class="arcad ad-550x250"></div></div></div><p class="c-paragraph paywall">The HSE’s use of external consults at a cost of “hundreds of millions” was “reckless” and unnecessary, she said.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Fórsa members were “absolutely angry and they are feeling very undervalued as they play a crucial role”, she said. </p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">“Some members working in the clerical mainstream, are the first person that you meet when you go into a hospital, they are the person that you ring when you need to get your consultant appointment or your X-ray appointment. 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