Hospital doctors have held fresh talks with the Health Service Executive (HSE) at the Labour Relations Commission (LRC).

The Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) and the HSE are in dispute over contracts for newly appointed doctors in public hospitals.

The Health Minister Leo Varadkar has welcomed new proposals put forward during the latest round of discussions.

The IMO says it will make a decision on the proposals next Tuesday.

Mr Varadkar is urging the IMO to recommend acceptance of the revised proposals to its members.

While the Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) says it is "adamant that the concerns of consultants must be properly addressed through engagement with the Association to restore trust so that our highly trained doctors will want to practice in Ireland as consultants."

IHCA president Dr Gerard Crotty, said "It is essential that the solution to the recruitment crisis restores parity for newly appointed consultants and addresses the failure by the State to honour existing contracts which has undermined trust and is causing an increasing medical brain drain."

"The lack of clarity and the proposal to pay increments over a 12 year period give rise to a serious concern that the proposals are designed to potentially penalise consultants for highlighting patient safety issues and deficiencies in frontline resources," he added.