General Practitioner Contract: Statements
Dail Éireann — 2020-11-03
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Pearse Doherty (SF), Donegal

I am not even going to go there because it is ridiculous that the Tánaiste is suggesting that he decided to take it on himself, with no engagement all through the process, to give a confidential document to a friend and this was supposedly fulfilling a Government commitment.
The Tánaiste wrote in this document - in his own handwriting, I presume – "subject to amendments and changes". Does he accept that this document that he gave to his friend, the rival group to the IMO, which the Department of Health and the HSE were in engagement for a long period, could have been amended and changed at the time he decided to post it to his friend?

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Sitting date: 2020-11-03