Mr Varadkar has dismissed a report concerning his time as Taoiseach in Village Magazine as being “both inaccurate and grossly defamatory”. On the contrary, this information was in the public domain,” Mr Varadkar said. Mr Varadkar said he had provided Mr Ó Tuathail with a copy of the contract on a date between April 11 and April 16 of that year. Mr Varadkar said that in giving Mr Ó Tuathail the document he was following a “legitimate objective” of encouraging “acceptance of the Agreement amongst the General Practitioner community”. Meanwhile, co-leader of the Social Democrats Roisin Shortall also called for Mr Varadkar to make a statement on the matter.

Source: Irish Examiner October 31, 2020 14:33 UTC