Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 27 January 2021
773. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the reason his Department did not share a copy of the draft terms of the agreement between his Department, the HSE and an organisation (details supplied) regarding general practitioner contractual reform and service development with the Minister for Health after it was requested by the Minister and his office on 15 April 2019. [3986/21]
View answerThe Deputy will appreciate that I did not hold the office of Minister for Health during the period in question and therefore can respond only insofar as the records held in my Department indicate. Following agreement on all main elements of a contractual reform agreement between Government and the Irish Medical Organisation, a further period was required to complete the drafting between the parties of a detailed formal agreement document. When this was ready it was furnished by officials to the then-Minister, on 17 April 2019.
