Junior Doctors say we are still "nowhere near" the EU's 48-hour limit on working weeks for junior doctors.

Yesterday, the EU referred the government to the European Court of Justice for failing to implement the Working Time Directive, with many young Irish medics working in excess of 80 hours per week.

The HSE has agreed to eliminate the practice by the end of next year, but Brussels says there is no indication that any real progress is being made.

Jonathan Todd, spokesperson for the European Commissioner for employment and social affairs, has said "Changes should have been implemented in 2009. We are prepared for the changes to be applied by the end of next year, as agreed with the doctors themselves, but it has to be done in practice and you cannot expect changes to be implemented from one day to the next on the 31st of December 2014. We want to see concrete progress as of now in changing working practices to see that doctors and their patients no longer suffer from these excessive working hours." 

The Chairperson of the IMO's Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors Committee Dr John Donnellan told Newstalk's Breakfast time is running out for the government to fall in line: