Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Any agreement, even when it is done and passed by Cabinet, can be amended. We all know that. Agreements can be made and one can come back, amend them subsequently and they can be subject to change.

I have put the records out there for the information of the House tonight. Engagement was concluded - it says that in the Government memo - on 3 April. The details were publicly announced on 4 April. It was launched by the HSE on 6 April, publicly announced and endorsed by me and the then Minister, Deputy Harris, on the same day. This was a week or two after all of that. Yes, any document can be subject to change or amendment. That is a simple fact. However, in this case, any changes that were made were minor because they did not go back to Cabinet.

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