Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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I do not know whether or not it was, but there are a lot of other pubs around the place. The cash flow is the issue. I am surprised that the regulatory institutions have not zoomed in on them to the same extent. All our salaries are paid by the State and accounted for - they have to be accounted for - and the Revenue Commissioners have been very quick to tell us when suddenly we get money and to ask where it has come from. They do that, and rightly so. The point about it is that I resent the harassment we have to go through in our own office, with members of staff and so on having to account for themselves and various allegations, while it is pretended we have information. If you have information, let us have ye, but it is another thing to be guilty by association or something like that. There is a way to deal with that too.