General Practitioner Contract: Statements
Dail Éireann — 2020-11-03
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Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West

It was none of those things. This was an agreement that had been concluded. It had been published in substance, or at least the salient details had, including all the financial and commercially sensitive information. This agreement had been launched by the HSE and welcomed publicly by me and by the Minister for Health. It had gone to the Cabinet. The Cabinet memo very clearly says that engagement had concluded. The head of the NAGP requested it. I gave it to him because he was the president of the NAGP, not because he was a friend of mine. He is not as close a friend as he has made out, which I can come to later. My intention, as I outlined in my statement, was to try to mollify, reduce and negate the opposition of that organisation because I did not want-----

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Sitting date: 2020-11-03