Taoiseach would 'have no difficulty' meeting Zappone in New York after Oireachtas Committee rejection

Katherine Zappone has rejected an invitation to appear before the Oireachtas Foreign Affairs Committee. File picture: RollingNews.ie

The Taoiseach says he would "have no difficulty" meeting Katherine Zappone in New York after she rejected an invitation to appear before an Oireachtas committee.

Ms Zappone had been invited by the committee last week to discuss her controversial appointment by her former cabinet colleague Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney as UN special envoy. Ms Zappone had first accepted and then refused the UN envoy role, which had not been publicly advertised.