'This will be fully investigated' - Tánaiste wants answers as €236k spent to make room for unused printer

“I’d like to know how that happened. I’d like to know the details in terms of how this happened before making any informed commentary on it,” he said.

The Tánaiste wants a full investigation to establish why €236,000 was spent adapting an area in Kildare House for a hi-tech printer which is not now being used due to an industrial relations standoff.

Simon Coveney said state agencies and the houses of the Oireachtas should be “leading the way in terms of good management and value for money” and that this apparent waste of public money should not have happened.