EDUCATION MINISTER RUBBISHES THREAT CLAIMS BY GALWAY SENATOR

Date Published: 04-Mar-2010

The Education Minister has rubbished claims made in the Seanad by Galway Senator Fidelma Healy-Eames that he threatened to personally sue her for her criticism of his special needs cutbacks.

Senator Healy-Eames claimed yesterday Batt O’Keeffe confronted her in the corridors of Leinster House on December the 9th.

However the claims have been "rubbished" by the Minister’s Office.