No role for competition watchdog to get involved in Varadkar information row

The CCPC has long policed and scrutinised dealings with and between business and trade associations

Isolde Goggin, chair of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, the CCPC

The sharing of information with a rival GPs medical business group at the centre of the furore involving Tánaiste Leo Varadkar does not involve competition law and the regulator will not be involved in the matter, the Competition Commission has told the Irish Examiner. 

Mr Varadkar has said he did nothing unlawful in communicating secret information last year involving a pay deal struck with the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) with a rival business association or trade group, the National Association of General Practitioners (NAGP).