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

I can. As I think I explained earlier, a circumstance like this never arose before. If it was a commercial contract, there are particular rules around that, and Ministers do not have access to those contracts. If it was a pay deal or a pay agreement with a union in the normal sense, it would have been published immediately or within days. In circumstances like this, I can say that this did not happen before and has not happened since. However, there are occasions when I think anybody who is in government will show people documents. For example, I was drafting the national maternity strategy at one stage-----

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