Tánaiste: Appointments row not Labour's problem

The Tánaiste has insisted that the row over the Seanad by-election is "not a matter for the Labour party, it's a matter for Fine Gael".

Joan Burton made the remarks at lunchtime on the controversy over the appointment of a Fine Gael candidate to a board, in order to get him a nomination for the Seanad by-election reached the floor of the Dáil.