Micheál Martin: “So there no issues with it at all, as far as we're concerned.”

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has insisted that any assessment of exports from Aughinish Alumina must be independent of the company.

We will work as an honest broker to try to narrow gaps and to bring people together.

These are scientists and people with expert knowledge – they’re not politicians – who meet to assess drugs.

I certainly will take the issue that you've raised in respect of this letter that was written by him in the 1970s forward, and see how best to examine that.