Micheál Martin: “This has been a major failing of an organ of the State that cannot be downplayed.”

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.

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

I think we need to be careful of these stories, who's feeding them into the ether? Why?

I want to apologise to those men, Jason Clancy, Paul Walsh, Kevin Keating, Colin Power, Barry Murphy, Simon O'Toole and Gerard Mullane.