The Fianna Fáil TD said he would step down as chairman of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence.

The Australian actress also told Tatler’s April issue about working with the late Heath Ledger.

The film adaptation based on the characters from Roald Dahl’s book of the same name will feature three original songs.

It is one of 10 early Byrne works which were bought from him by his local parish priest in the 1970s.

Derek Byrne was pronounced dead at the age of 14 in 1974 but woke up three hours later in a morgue.