Varadkar welcomes closure on GP agreement leak affair

Confirmation that he will not face charges clears way for him to become taoiseach again at the end of the year

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar: 'My disclosure of the document to the president of the NAGP was lawful and I did so in the public interest.' Picture: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

The Tánaiste has accepted that his leaking of a confidential document to a friend was inappropriate but says that allegations made against him "were false".

Leo Varadkar was informed on Wednesday that the DPP would not be pressing charges over the leaking of the pay deal between the Government and the Irish Medical Organisation to a rival union. The National Association of General Practitioners (NAGP) was at the time headed by Dr Maitiú Ó Tuathail, someone Mr Varadkar says was a friend, but not a close one.