Challenge to alleged Varadkar leak decision to be heard on notice to Taoiseach and Sipo

The challenge to the watchdog is being brought by People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy

There is a considerable amount of case law saying that usual features of fair procedure rules don’t apply to the same extent at a preliminary stage, he said.

Among the Dublin South-West deputy’s grounds of challenge is a claim his right to fair procedures and natural and constitutional justice was breached by Sipo’s decision.Mr Murphy made a complaint in November 2020 to Sipo that Mr Varadkar, then tanáiste, now Taoiseach, provided a copy of the confidential proposed GP’s contract agreement in April 2019 to Dr Maitiú Ó Tuathail, president of the National Association of General Practitioners .

The case returned before the judge on Monday when he directed that the hearing of the application for leave to bring the challenge be heard on notice to Sipo and that Mr Varadkar’s solicitors also be served with the papers.

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