Dr. Elaine Byrne:

When I went through all the different donations to political parties, there was evidence of Mr. X, a property developer, donating, as well as his wife and child donating. How does one regulate that? There are ways around legislation, as there are ways around everything. One of the detailed recommendations I made to the standards commission was that, in theory, X property developer, or whatever sector he or she is from, could make individual donations to each member of a political party. In that way, the individual is not donating to a political party but to individuals and, in that way, raising the amount of money he is giving annually to an individual.