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- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Pearse Doherty: I ask the Minister to clarify that because he says it is clear. He does say in the response that he will make inquiries on that and that they should grab a coffee soon. Did he make any inquiries about the contract to anybody?
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Pearse Doherty: He had already tweeted about his acceptance of the agreement the week before.
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister for Justice went on national radio yesterday to bat in the Tánaiste's defence and said there had been engagement with NAGP throughout these negotiations. The Tánaiste is telling me that the Department of Health said there was no engagement. That is the problem. We have asked for these documents which are all covered by freedom of information to be released in order...
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Pearse Doherty: I am not even going to go there because it is ridiculous that the Tánaiste is suggesting that he decided to take it on himself, with no engagement all through the process, to give a confidential document to a friend and this was supposedly fulfilling a Government commitment. The Tánaiste wrote in this document - in his own handwriting, I presume – "subject to amendments...
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Pearse Doherty: This document was changed. I presume it was changed through ongoing discussion after this date between the IMO and the Department. If the Tánaiste wants to suggest that it was not changed - I do not think that is the Tánaiste's defence anymore - that is what one of his Ministers suggested yesterday, however. The Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, out to bat for the...
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
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- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Pearse Doherty: Has the Tánaiste ever given Maitiú Ó Tuathail any other confidential information? Has he leaked any other confidential reports?
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Pearse Doherty: When this accusation was made to the Tánaiste by the Villagemagazine on Tuesday last, did he contact any other Cabinet colleagues to discuss this with them? We know he did not inform the Taoiseach until it was publicised on Saturday.
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Pearse Doherty: Is the Tánaiste aware of any other members of his Cabinet at that time being asked by any senior member of the NAGP for this contract?
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Pearse Doherty: Is the Tánaiste aware that Deputy Harris, his then Minister for Health, was approached by Maitiú Ó Tuathail on 9 April requesting this document?
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Pearse Doherty: I am just asking about his awareness.
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Pearse Doherty: Is the Tánaiste aware that on the morning of 10 April that the then Minister, Deputy Harris, responded to that, said he would make inquiries on that and saying to him, let us grab coffee soon?
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Pearse Doherty: At 8 o'clock on the morning of 10 April, the then Minister, Deputy Harris, said he would make inquiries. At 2 o'clock, the Tánaiste sent a message to Maitiú Ó Tuathail looking for his home address.
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Pearse Doherty: Can the Tánaiste confirm that at 2 o'clock on the same day, he sent a message asking Maitiú Ó Tuathail for his home address?
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Pearse Doherty: It is suggested by the Tánaiste's friend, Maitiú Ó Tuathail, that he met the then Minister, Deputy Harris, for lunch in Wicklow on the afternoon or the morning of 12 April. Is that something the Tánaiste is aware of or not?
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Pearse Doherty: Okay. There is another one where Maitiú Ó Tuathail asked if there had been any luck in getting that contract. That was the Monday. The Tánaiste said it should be in the post and acknowledges he will probably put it in the post on Monday, 15 April, or Tuesday, 16 April. The Tánaiste was Head of the Government at the time. There is a lot of information to be put out...
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Pearse Doherty: We can establish a number of things. First, the confidential document, the draft agreement, was not complete. There were changes to it afterwards. We can establish that the Tánaiste's friend requested that document and that he told nobody in the Department of the Taoiseach, the Department of Health, in the HSE or in the IMO. He did not send it to the head office which is across the...
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Pearse Doherty: Maitiú Ó Tuathail certainly did not have to exaggerate because he obtained from the Tánaiste a document that had "Confidential: Not for circulation" on its front cover, a document which the Tánaiste wrote on the top corner: "Subject to amendments and changes". Where did the Tánaiste obtain a copy of the document that he provided to Maitiú Ó Tuathail? Did...
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Pearse Doherty: Who in the Department of Health provided the Tánaiste with the copy and did he request it at the time for that purpose? Could he also outline to me when Maitiú Ó Tuathail requested the document from him?
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Pearse Doherty: When?