Micheál Martin: “I regretted the fact that he resigned from Government. I didn't think at the time that that was necessary or the correct…”

The Government had made more progress on childcare in the last five years than in the previous 30.

This has been a major failing of an organ of the State that cannot be downplayed.

I don’t want to comment on the actual case as it is live, but I did raise it.

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