Micheál Martin: 'I think he's undermined the whole approach to public health in Ireland'

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has declined to call on Phil Hogan to resign. Picture: Julien Behal Photography.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has repeatedly declined to say that EU Commissioner Phil Hogan should resign, saying that the government would accept whatever decision Commission President Ursula von der Leyden makes.

Mr Martin, speaking at a school in Dublin ahead of its reopening, said that "what that has been a significant difficulty for the government" had been the "changing narrative as this story has unfolded".