Taoiseach Enda Kenny has offered a strong defence of embattled Health Minister Dr James Reilly amid scandal involving site selections for primary care centres.

Sinn Féin has joined Fianna Fáil in calling for under-fire Health Minister Dr James Reilly to resign from his post — or be removed — over the primary care sites affair.

FEWER vehicles were clamped in Dublin last year according to new figures, but the clamping rate in Cork city increased in 2008.