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Tánaiste to address Dáil later as local GP describes controversy as a non-story for doctors

Nov 3, 2020 14:05 By News Northern Sound
Tánaiste to address Dáil later as local GP describes controversy as a non-story for doctors
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Opposition parties have said the Tánaiste needs to give a full apology for leaking a sensitive document if he expects to move on from

Opposition parties have said the Tánaiste needs to give a full apology for leaking a sensitive document if he expects to move on from the current controversy.

Leo Varadkar will give a statement to the Dáil this evening.

Leo Varadkar will have had to address his cabinet colleagues this morning, but they are backing him.

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Green Party leader Eamon Ryan saying he supports the Tánaiste. But opposition parties not as convinced - with Labour's Ged Nash and Sinn Féin's David Cullinane saying there's plenty of questions still to answer.

Leo Varadkar has already said his actions in delivering the IMO contract to a friend of his in the NAGP were inappropriate.

He'll have to convince the Dáil this afternoon that no financial or competitive advantage was given to the GPs union, and convince his government colleagues that he can draw a line under this today.

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Meanwhile, the controversy around Leo Varadkar's leaking of the IMO contract has been described as "a non-story for doctors".

Monaghan GP Dr Illona Duffy says details of the contract were already in the public domain when the Tánaiste shared the document with the head of a rival doctors' group.

She says the leaking of the document should not have happened but much of its contents were already in the public domain as GPs were being asked for their opinions on it.

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Speaking on The Joe Finnegan Show today Dr Duffy, who's a member of the IMO, described it as "a non-story":

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