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

I am not sure that is a question. I was not chatting. I wanted to make sure I pieced together everything in my recollection so that I could share all of these facts with the House. One of the things published in Villagewas a WhatsApp message from me to him looking for his home address. I did not have that WhatsApp message any more and I wanted to check the exact date on which I sent the document. I knew that was one of the questions I would be asked. It was being put about on Twitter by one of the Deputies here that I sent it on 2 April, which would have been before it was agreed. I wanted to make sure that was not true. In my recollection it was not true. I recalled the date as being closer to 17 April, and that was something I wanted to check.

Yes, we are friends. However, there are friends and there are friends. We are not close friends. Dr. Ó Tuathail is the kind of friend I would meet two or three times a year, probably at a drinks reception or through overlapping social circles. Otherwise he would have been in touch with me about medical matters such as Safetynet, the charity he works for through which GPs provide medical care to the homeless. I have had some involvement in that. We are not best mates or anything like that. I know some people are trying to create that impression, or perhaps the impression that we are more than that. That is not the case at all.

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