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- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Leo Varadkar: I do not have that in front at the moment. I asked him for his home address and I sent the document to him in the post. I do not have the exact time.
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Leo Varadkar: The Deputy is reading out tweets or WhatsApp messages that were put on the Internet in the last hour or so that are not from me. They are between other people. I cannot account for that. I can account for the ones from me.
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Leo Varadkar: Once again, I am very happy to answer any questions he may have about my actions. I cannot answer questions about the actions of the then Minister, Deputy Harris, or the actions of Dr. Ó Tuathail. I can only answer for myself.
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Leo Varadkar: I got the document from the Department of Health. It was a hard copy. I did copy it. I kept a copy for myself, which I no longer have, and I posted one to him. He did request it.
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Leo Varadkar: I received copies of this twice. I would have got briefings from time to time about the negotiations. I was not at the talks at any point but I was briefed on them. I got one copy from the Minister for Health, which my records tell me I read and put in the recycling bin. I requested a second copy through my adviser. I have an adviser, Clare Mungovan, who covered health issues for me when...
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Leo Varadkar: I do not have the exact date, but it was all in that time period, obviously.
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Leo Varadkar: Again, I do not have the exact time period on that, but the document I had was from after 4 April, because that is when it was agreed. He would have requested it sometime between 4 April and the date which I gave Deputy Doherty as to when I sent it to him, which was between 11 April and 15 April or 16 April. I think it was 15 April or 16 April but I do not know exactly on which date.
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Leo Varadkar: I did, yes.
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Leo Varadkar: I do not have a text message on that.
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Leo Varadkar: The document that I was given by the then Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, was some time around 4 or 5 April. This was the document that I read and put in the recycling bin. Then when I got the second copy I-----
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Leo Varadkar: No, because I wanted to read it again.
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Leo Varadkar: Yes. I did. I requested my adviser to get it for me. I think that was on 10 April.
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Leo Varadkar: I know he was looking for it.
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Leo Varadkar: I do not know the exact date but it was all obviously in that week, which was the week after it had been launched, announced and approved by the Cabinet.
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Leo Varadkar: I did not tell anyone, or at least I have no recollection of telling anyone, but in doing so, as I said earlier, I was following on from a Government commitment that we would keep the NAGP informed and involved in all of this.
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Leo Varadkar: Actually, no I am not.
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Leo Varadkar: I am sure I could have found that out, but I was not aware of it.
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Leo Varadkar: That is a good question and I cannot answer it for sure. The NAGP, in its statement the other day, said that it had monthly meetings with the HSE and the Department of Health. The Department of Health says otherwise - that there were not meetings in 2018 or 2019, so we will have to get to the bottom of that obviously, but none of the meetings would have involved me. Again, the commitment...
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Leo Varadkar: The Department of Health and the HSE were involved in this too. The NAGP in its statement say there were monthly meetings on the chronic disease package. The Department of Health says that there was a prolonged period where there were no meetings. I am not sure what the HSE is saying. What I can say is that there was a public commitment given by the Minister for Health and by me that the...
- General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)
Leo Varadkar: I welcome this opportunity to give an account to the Dáil of my actions in April 2019 in relation to the contract negotiated between the Government and general practitioners, GPs, represented by the Irish Medical Organisation, IMO. I welcome the opportunity to set the record straight, to refute some of the allegations against me and to apologise for my errors of judgment. I want to...