Hospital consultants have voted to accept the terms of a revised contract from the Government.
80% of the 1,200 members of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association voted in a ballot to back the deal.
After more than four years of negotiations the IHCA had recommended that its members accept the deal.
Under the deal, consultants will work an extended 37-hour week in the public system including weekends. The deal also places limits on private work.
However, around 700 consultants will still be permitted to do private work away from their main public hospital.
The top basic salary on offer is €240,000 a year.
While existing consultants will not be obliged to take up the new contract it will apply to all new appointees after June.
The result of a separate ballot on the contract by the Irish Medical Organisation, which has around 800 consultant members, will be known on 4 June.
The IMO ballot has been issued without a recommendation for acceptance or rejection.
