Varadkar: Reilly move ‘like stroke politics’

Health Minister James Reilly’s decision to add two sites in his constituency to a list of locations for primary care centres does look like stroke politics, his Cabinet colleague Leo Varadkar has admitted.

“It does look like it. I don’t know if it is or not. You know, you have to trust your colleagues to make the right decisions and make them on the right basis and I do trust Dr Reilly in that regard. But I don’t know all the details.”

The transport minister’s qualified defence will do little to ease the pressure on Dr Reilly, who survived a no-confidence motion in the Dáil last week.