General Practitioner Contract: Statements
Dail Éireann — 2020-11-03
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Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (LAB), Dublin Bay North

Again, the Labour Party finds utterly incredible the Tánaiste's explanation to this House and the Irish people that what he was trying to do was to promote the agreement, an agreement the NAGP did not promote among its members and which some of the NAGP members were saying it would use against the IMO. There are references in the text messages to what it was going to do with the 17 roadshows the IMO had planned. The Tánaiste stepped outside his area of responsibility. He stepped into a negotiated deal between the Minister for Health, the IMO and the HSE. It was a sensible enough agreement which was not signed off on for another month when it came to the acceptance of the members. The Tánaiste's buddy or pal, the guy with the Leo t-shirt, asked him for a copy of it and he said "Yes". Does the Tánaiste not feel that either he was reckless in his behaviour, considering the organisation with which he was involved, or that his explanation to the House this evening has no credibility whatsoever?

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Sitting date: 2020-11-03