Government will continue to use commercial airlines to travel to US – Taoiseach

'Generally transatlantic, we tend not to use the Government jet, we tend to use the tried and trusted method. There is a cost element, but it is not the matter that dominates the Government agenda.' Picture: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

The Government will continue to use commercial airlines to travel across the Atlantic, despite Taoiseach Micheál Martin missing a meeting with US President Joe Biden this week.

Amid increasing unreliability with Ireland’s short-range Learjet, Mr Martin said the Department of Defence and the Air Corps were reviewing the need for a replacement.