The Taoiseach has said he doesn't believe any law was broken by Leo Varadkar when he shared a confidential agreement with doctors.
Micheál Martin has said the Tánaiste's actions were not best practice but that no major advantage was given to anyone by sharing the agreement.
The pressure on Leo Varadkar has been building over the weekend ahead of his statement to the Dáil tomorrow.
Longford-Westmeath Fine Gael Junior Minister Peter Burke says Leo Varadkar will not face any sanctions from the Taoiseach on the controversy over the sending of a draft government agreement to a GP.
The Fine Gael leader has been coming under pressure in recent days over the sending of a draft agreement to the head of the National Association of General Practitioners before it was published.
The agreement had been negotiated with another doctor's organisation, the IMO, and Leo Varadkar says he sent the document to the NAGP because he wanted to try and get wider backing among doctors for the deal.
Fine Gael TD and Junior Minister Peter Burke says he accepts the method of sending the agreement by courier wasn't best practice, but he insists the Tánaiste didn't break any law.
Speaking on the Joe Finnegan show this morning Deputy Burke says the Tanaiste won't face sanctions over the controversy…
This morning the Minister for Business was conspicuous by his absence from the announcement at Government Buildings of 300 new jobs by pharma company Pfizer.
Instead it was Taoiseach Micheál Martin who made the announcement, and took questions on Leo Varadkar's sharing of a confidential IMO agreement with a rival GP union.
The Taoiseach said he has confidence in Leo Varadkar, but deflected most questions saying the Tánaiste will have his own chance to answer them in the Dáil tomorrow.
For the opposition, including Sinn Féin's Louise O'Reilly, there's plenty of questions.
The Tánaiste's defence largely centres around the argument that most of the information in the IMO document was already in the public domain before he shared it with a friend of his who was heading a rival union.
