Why are you trying to divert to a fairly futile part of the case? Itās not contended that he broke protocols and codes of ethics to do a favour for his mate. His reasoning for doing it has absolutely nothing to support it. Deflect, deflect and deflect.
The Village has been caught out with untrue allegations. The veracity of the whole story is now undermined. The motivations of Leo were to serve the State. The motivations of Bowes and the Village are questionable.
I think The Village overplayed their hand yesterday and have given Varadkar a bit of an open goal to muddy the waters. The issue is the leaking of a confidential state contract, but he can now hone in on these (non) meetings and say The Village is unreliable as I was in āxā when they alleged I met OāTuathail etc etc. I still think he should go to prison for a very long time for what heās done.
To what matter? You are talking about the leaking of the document here and itās your view that he should go for that.
This second batch of reporting goes beyond that to alleged wider Ministerial meetings, accusing a broader group of people. Do you not want accountability (of whatever the allegations to that are supposed to be) over that?
Youāre trying to deflect. The fact Varadkar broke codes of ethics and responsibilities to do a favour for his mate is not disputed. Varadkarās whole defence is undermined by the following facts:
He went behind the back of his minister for health who had refused a request to delete the document
The NAGP were a rival organisation who were not involved in the talks
He only gave the document at his friendās request rather than the other way round. He was responding to a favour request rather than implementing a strategy
He deleted text messages of the request
His friend is on record as wanting to destroy the IMO
He very clearly states both on the document and in a text message that it was subject to change and not to take it as gospel which is a complete contradiction of his defence of the document being finalised
Not to mention the lie being spun about the document being published when it was not and did not go to ballot until a full month after
Itās not contested, itās actually accepted but has been passed off as ānot best practiceā. These allegations are 100% proven, you are just happy to abide by corruption and cronyism and your only response is to deflect rather than address.
I think, although Iām not sure, that the Whistlelblower legislation was aimed more at employees within companies and protecting them so I donāt think it applies in this instance.