Micheál Martin: “We are concerned about any reports that the products from Aughinish - the raw material from there - would be used to…”

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

I believe the licence fee does make a contribution, so this constant undermining of it, in my view, only makes things worse, because people are not prepared to support a universal levy.

We need to be economically competitive in order to sustain the European way of life.

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.