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

I believe the person who Deputy Connolly describes as the whistleblower was one of those people. I think that those messages were deplorable too, but I had never seen them until the last couple of days. They were not for me to anyone, they were between third parties, including people I did not know and had never met. I can be accountable for my actions, my messages and what I say, but I cannot be accountable for other people.
The Deputy was right to say they were rival organisations but that is not the full context. This was a contract that was being offered to all GPs to sign up to or not. It was important that it was-----

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Sitting date: 2020-11-03