Micheál Martin: Easy thing would be to pull plug

It would be easier and more beneficial for Fianna Fail to pull the plug and call a general election, Micheál Martin has admitted.

In recent weeks, scandal after scandal has plagued the minority Government from the revelation that a Tusla file had been held on whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe, to the uncovering of a mass burial at the Tuam mother and baby home, to the exaggeration of Garda breath testing.

The Fianna Fáil leader has said during that time as the Government stumbled from one crisis to another, it would have been “easy” to call another election.