Tánaiste: I don't want to 'track' Health Minister
Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore said today that he has no wish to track the meetings held by Health Minister James Reilly in relation to proposals to build a primary care centre in his own constituency.
It comes after it emerged that Minister Reilly held a meeting with Nama about the building of a primary care centre in Balbriggan months before he gave priority to the building of the facility in his own local area.
The Tánaiste was asked about it today by Sinn Féin's Mary Lou McDonald.
"You might also, Tánaiste, usefully ask the Minister to explain why it was he was meeting with Nama on the 20th of April last, to discuss primary care centres in Balbriggan, a meeting that took place, that he was personally in attendance at, months in advance of his doctoring of the list of primary care centres," she said.
Minister Gilmore said that he was not going to get involved, however.
"I can't track, nor do I want to track, the diaries of every Minister in this Government, and who they met, and when they met him and so on, nor, indeed, could I possibly do so."
