General Practitioner Contract: Statements
Dail Éireann — 2020-11-03
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Peadar Tóibín (AON), Meath West

The Tánaiste has agreed here today that it was a confidential document, it was understood as a confidential document by the parties to the document, and that he broke that confidence. Is it not a very serious issue that the Taoiseach of the day broke the confidence of major parties with which the Government was negotiating?
Every time the Tánaiste was asked why he did not do this the right way at the time, he said that he would do it differently now. That answer skips over his motivation for doing it the wrong way in the first place. What was his motivation for doing this in a secret manner?

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