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

I do not think that assessment is correct. The reason we concluded that agreement with the IMO not the NAGP, at a cost to the taxpayer of €210 million, was because we wanted to. We thought it was the right thing to restore funding to general practice to reverse FEMPI, to make it viable again, to stop the haemorrhage of young doctors from our country, and especially to bring in a chromic disease management programme at a cost of €80 million. That is why we did it. It was the right thing to do. It was not about buying off any campaign, not at all.

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