Minister claims Sinn Féin 'misled the Dáil' on €9m school phone pouches issue

Tánaiste Micheál Martin said that Sinn Féin are 'desperately grasping at straws'

The Dáil was told by Pearse Doherty that Norma Foley met an executive from Yondr, the company who will supply the pouches, at the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals (NAPDP) in Galway two years ago and the executive gave the minister a phone pouch. File photo: Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

Minister for Education Norma Foley has hit back at claims from Sinn Féin that she was "intensely lobbied" by the company supplying the phone pouches to be rolled out in secondary schools across the country.

Leaders Questions became heated after Pearse Doherty made the accusation, with the Ceann Comhairle threatening to suspend the Dáil on the final day of the government.