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

As I explained, if I was doing this again, I would do it through official channels. I would perhaps bring Dr. Ó Tuathail in and do a page by page or line by line briefing. What I wanted to do was to share the document with him on a confidential basis to get his opinion on it and see whether he thought it was a good deal. I believed that in sharing it with him, he would come to the conclusion that it was a good agreement and that the NAGP should not campaign or agitate against it or try to undermine it, as it did back in 2015. The objective was to try to, at least, mollify any opposition to the agreement.

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Sitting date: 2020-11-03