Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 13 May 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Eoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Okay. Have you seen Dr. Elaine Byrne's research? It's in the booklets that you were provided with. Page 106 to 107 in the first volume. And in it she states that between 1997 and 2007, 35% of Fianna Fáil's disclosed donations were from property and construction interests and 34% of the PDs' disclosed donations came from the property sector. Mr. Kelleher, why was your industry such a significant donor to the main political parties of government at the time?