Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

——and we comply with those laws. The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and I had no discussions on this. I assume what he believes, as does everyone in the Cabinet, is that if money has been taken in an illegal fashion — I do not know what the situation is until the tribunal is finished — or bogus or offshore accounts have been used in an illegal fashion, such conduct would be of the utmost gravity. That is the position. I repeat the first I knew about anything to do with Deputy Flynn and £50,000 was when this issue was raised in the House some years ago. I have answered on the record, particularly in the case of 1999, questions on this issue. Fianna Fáil has, in all these matters — there have been a few——

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