"Are you be meeting today to discuss the new variant?"
"If we need to meet, arrangements will be made to organise promptly"
So, in other words, No. Paschal & co have no plans to meet on the new variant that both the EU & UK have put in emergency measures to tackle #TodayCB
You can hear Pashcal's finger run along the words on his pre-rehearsed answers to every question. Even Claire Byrne sounds so robotic in her questioning. Not one follow up question to any of his responses, a light-hearted Q&A session.
#TodayCB
Please, no more Brian Hayes on a publicly funded national broadcaster.
He has crawled out from under a rock and it is evident after this morning's merry go round with Claire that he still reeks.
#TodayCB
No Claire, I'm not going to talk about my Fine Gael colleague's apology, let's move on. Now can we focus on the Brian Stanley apology and why we can't move on ๐คฃ
#todayCB
@TodaywithClaire @CarrollJennifer @andreemurphy Brian Stanley has major questions to answer. Not good enough from a supposedly forward-thinking public rep.
However, I do have a wry smile with Claire having a Fine Gael representative on to give their opinion on the whole thing. The graphic detail wasn't necessary, Jennifer.
Fine Gael's defence to this entire saga is that they are OK with a sitting Taoiseach leaking confidential documents and we're too thick to understand why that's a good thing. Nothing to see here, folks.
#LeoGate#TodayCB#patkenny#leovaradkar
Patrick O'Donovan completely ignoring Claire's questions and points. He's actually even disagreeing with Leo Varadkar's statement.
"No-no Leo, don't mind what you said in your own statement, I GOT THIS" ๐ณ
What a bizarre interview from a minister.
#LeoGate#TodayCB
Patrick O'Donovan continues with his air of arrogance approach to #LeoGate. He's always had a smarmy approach to the electorate's intelligence. Leo did wrong - he admitted it HIMSELF - O'Donovan thinks we're all too thick to understand & should take our Trumpian medicine #TodayCB
@Philip_Ryan Canโt be an easy day for you, Philip. How you readjust this to make Sinn Fรฉin look culpable is not an easy task - but I have every confidence youโll give it your best shot.