General Practitioner Contract: Statements Dail Éireann — 2020-11-03 ============================================================ Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West If he or she were not directed by a Minister to do it, but the Minister in this case and the Prime Minister or chief Minister in this case was me, and I was doing this on foot of a Government decision and honouring a commitment made by the Government. I could have instructed an official to do it. I did not, but I could have. --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2020-11-03/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:48:44+00:00 Sitting date: 2020-11-03