A special Cabinet meeting planned for Monaghan today was cancelled.
The Taoiseach and Ministers were to visit the Ulster Canal Stores in Clones before holding a meeting at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annamakerrig.
However, the ongoing cervical cancer controversy meant Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Health Minister Simon Harris had to stay in Dublin to deal with recent developments in the scandal.
Local Sinn Fein councillor Pat Treanor spoke to Caroline Gauley on the Wider View and started by expressing his disappointment: