The Tánaiste has insisted he "did not commit a crime" regarding the disclosure of a confidential Government document to a friend.
Leo Varadkar was speaking publicly for the first time since gardaí confirmed they have submitted a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions on the matter.
"I am very pleased that the garda investigation is now over. It was a very long and thorough one and at the end of it, there was no recommendation that there should be any charges," he said.
"The matter is now with the DPP and we await a decision," he told reporters during a trade mission in California.
"The allegations made against me were false, they were politically motivated," he added.
"I did not commit any crime, I did not do anything corrupt, in fact I did not do anything self-interested and when this is over I think that will be clear to any reasonable person."
Mr Varadkar said the DPP will now decide if he has a case to answer and he did "not want to say anything that could be interpreted as me putting pressure on the DPP in any way".
The Tánaiste previously told the Dáil he gave a copy of an agreement between the State and the Irish Medical Organisation to Maitiú Ó Túathail, the then president of a rival GP organisation, the National Association of General Practitioners, in April 2019.
Gardaí stated last weekend that "an investigation file on this matter has been submitted to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution for its consideration".
