Rules and Dáil expenses review - Dodging and ethics don’t mix

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar found himself in familiar, discomfiting — or at least it should be — territory on Saturday when he had to give a plausible response to the latest challenge to the idea of high standards in high places bedeviling Fine Gael’s long-cherished but now threadbare idea of itself.

The issue was how former Dáil deputy Dara Murphy’s expense claims could not be reviewed.