The former justice minister Alan Shatter says Enda Kenny made 'a mistake' by telling the Dáil he accepted responsibility for alleged wrongdoing.

The former TD says he never accepted any wrongdoing in the first place - a position vindicated by the O'Higgins Commission.

Shatter has written to the Taoiseach asking him to correct the Dáil record, and also to withdraw the older Guerin Report which made negative findings against him.

Announcing Shatter's resignation in the Dáil in 2014, Enda Kenny said the Guerin Report had identified a series of errors in how the allegations of Garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe were handled.

He then said Shatter had accepted responsibility for those failings - which the former minister says was never the case: