Chief whip responds to Lowry over meetings

The Government does not plan to issue guidelines for ministers on holding meetings with individuals named in tribunals according to the chief whip, Paul Kehoe.

The Wexford TD was reacting to independent TD Micheal Lowry who claimed to have been the subject of “reckless and irresponsible comment” in recent days.

Mr Lowry issued a statement to “set the record straight” following controversy over his meeting with Environment Minister Phil Hogan, a meeting which has been the subject of comments from Labour and Fine Gael TDs in the past week.