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

As I said before, this was not the right way to do it. I can totally understand why some people in the IMO may feel that their confidence was broken. I know some have been critical for that reason over the past couple of days. That is why I have apologised for that today and that is why I have accepted that I should have done this in a different way. Equally, however, there have been other people in the IMO who have said that they believe this is a non-story, that the document was far from confidential, that it was being discussed at public meetings, that GPs knew about the contents of it, that there were telephone calls about it, and that it was not a sensitive or highly confidential document in the sense the Deputy is trying to make out.

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Sitting date: 2020-11-03