#Golfgate: Taoiseach calls for 'far more fulsome response' from Phil Hogan

EU Commissioner Phil Hogan issued a statement from a spokesperson delivering an apology “for the distress caused by his participation”. File Picture: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie

The Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said that the holding of an 81-strong golf dinner for an Oireachtas society in Co. Galway, the day after new measures were put in place restricting such gatherings to just six people, was “very wrong”.

Mr Martin also said that EU Commissioner Phil Hogan should be "far more fulsome" in his response to the public's reaction to the issue.