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

Again, I cannot answer questions on behalf of other people. I think it is evident from all of this affair that Dr. Ó Tuathail, for his own reasons, made out to be closer to me than he was. On this occasion, I shared that document with him in confidence for two reasons. First, the agreement had been done and announced and it had been approved by the Cabinet and I wanted to ensure it would get maximum support from the GP community and was trying to avoid a repeat of what we had in 2015. That was my motivation. We had moved from the point where the deal was done to the point where we were trying to canvass maximum support for it. That was the reason.

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