Minister willing to go before committee to answer questions on gathering
Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has said he would be willing to go before an Oireachtas committee to answer questions about a gathering in his department in June 2020.
Last month, a spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs said "lessons have been learned" following the apparent breach of Covid-19 regulations on 17 June 2020.
An image which was shared on social media at the time shows a number of officials from the Department's UN Security Council campaign team gathered together posing for a photograph indoors.
The gathering took place on the evening that Ireland secured a seat on the United Nations Security Council. Ireland was in Phase two of its reopening plan at that stage, and Covid-19 regulations stipulated that people could only meet up to six others from outside their household in both indoor and outdoor settings.
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