Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald said Brian Stanley wrote to the Ceann Comhairle asking for time to make a statement to Dáil on December 15.
McDonald, who met the Laois-Offaly TD on Friday, told him to “take next week to be with his family; for whom this period of public controversy and comment has proven very difficult”.
RTE reports that she said they had “discussed the ongoing public commentary relating to tweets he has posted and a radio interview he gave in March”.
The Taoiseach said the credibility of the Dáil’s Audit Committee has been challenged by the controversy surrounding its chairman’s tweets.
Micheál Martin said it was something Brian Stanley needs to think about.
He said he was not entirely satisfied with Stanley’s apology, which he described as not “comprehensive enough”.
Stanley posted this tweet after Varadkar was elected head of Fine Gael, “Yippee 4d tory. I’m Leo. You can do whatever you want in bed, but you don’t look like a raise the next morning”.
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