Sinn Féin presents a motion of censure in Leo Varadkar

SINN FÉIN is filing a motion of no confidence against Leo Varadkar following the controversy over the Tánaiste giving a copy of an agreement between the government and the Irish Medical Organization to a rival GP group last year.

The motion will be debated in the Dáil next Tuesday.

The Fine Gael leader faced pressure following the story that appeared in Village Magazine last weekend.

Yesterday, Sinn Féin accused Varadkar of throwing the former head of the National Association of Family Physicians (NAGP) Dr. Maitiú Ó Tuathail, with whom he shared the document, “under the bus.”

The issue of sharing the agreement was raised again by Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty during the Leaders’ Questions yesterday.

A Sinn Féin spokesperson said today: “We made the decision due to the seriousness of this situation and the fact that Tánaiste has not faced any sanction or credible account of its actions in providing confidential information to a friend.”

This motion will allow Dáil to tell people that no one is above accountability and that there are consequences when you act like Leo Vardakar has done.

The spokesman added that the party will be “making it very clear that doing favors or giving preferential treatment” to certain people is “unacceptable.”

Commenting on this motion, a Tánaiste spokesperson said that Varadkar “took up all the issues at the Dáil this week.”

“This motion clearly shows that Sinn Féin is not interested in the truth. They are only interested in the political turmoil that attacks the Irish government at a time of national crisis and diverts attention from unanswered questions about its receipt of public money in the North. “

Several party officials resigned from Sinn Féin for not returning
Payments of £ 10,000 from a Covid-19 emergency fund.

In the event of a vote of no confidence, members of government parties are expected to vote with the government and the whip will be applied.