Former Junior Minister Roisin Shortall has warned Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore to stop making "excuses" after he blamed her for the delay in introducing anti-alcohol abuse legislation.
Relations between the pair have worsened since she complained that he had failed to support her in a row with Health Minister Dr James Reilly, after two primary care centres were earmarked for Dr Reilly's constituency. She resigned as junior minister for primary care, and from the Labour parliamentary party.
And in the latest signs of tension, Mr Gilmore hit back at Ms Shortall when she questioned why he had not kept a promise to publish a bill to tackle alcohol abuse by Christmas.
"Unfortunately there wasn't as much preparatory work done on this bill as we had been led to believe," he said. But Ms Shortall rejected Mr Gilmore's Dail comments, saying that there had been a vast amount of work done on the alcohol bill before she stepped down last year.
Source: Michael Brennan, Irish Independent, 25/01/2013
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