Simon Coveney has denied that there has been a cover-up of a gathering in his department when social distancing rules were breached. The Minister for Foreign Affairs was answering questions before the Oireachtas foreign affairs committee yesterday evening about the controversial event. For more on this and reaction, we heard from Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon who's also a member of the Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence.

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