Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said EU Commissioner Phil Hogan has undermined public confidence in terms of the public health guidelines
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said EU Commissioner Phil Hogan has undermined public confidence in terms of the public health guidelines.
The Taoiseach said he will not go beyond last night's statement by himself and Tánaiste Leo Varadkar and Green Party leader Eamon Ryan, but there is a line that they have to honour and there is a legal framework within which the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has to operate. "There would be considerable resistance to the idea of national government endeavouring to seek to influence the President of the [European] Commission in respect of the conduct of any given commissioner in any given country or to seek to remove a commissioner."
Mr Ryan also said Mr Hogan was not free to travel around the country, despite having a negative Covid-19 test, saying that this applies in different cases. However, she would not be drawn on when President von der Leyen would conclude her assessment of Mr Hogan's conduct.
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