Madigan: 'Communication is key' to virus response, admits 'lack of synergy' in government

There is a "lack of synergy" in the government, Minister Josepha Madigan has conceded. File Picture: Gareth Chaney Collins

A government minister has admitted there is a "lack of synergy" in the government after a week of public gaffes and mixed messages.

The Green Party, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael government has come under sustained criticism in recent weeks over Covid-19 messaging, which culminated in a much-maligned TV interview on Wednesday night in which the health minister compared the risk of the virus to driving in a car and bouncing on a trampoline.