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

When local elections and European Parliament elections happen people make their judgment based on the candidate and probably the main reason we gained a seat in the European elections was the quality of our candidates with people like Mairead McGuinness, for example, getting a massive vote, and a new candidate like Maria Walsh getting elected. With regard to gaining an additional 20 council seats, people look at their local councillor and that is one of the reasons they vote the way they do, or they vote based on their attitude towards the Government in general, not based on a GP contract. I really do not think, quite frankly, that this is material to those elections. I really do not.

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Sitting date: 2020-11-03