Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

Fianna Fáil took these matters seriously even if others did not.

We have, at all times and in all ways, assisted the tribunal and will continue to assist it in uncovering precisely who received the cheque and for what purposes. We have set up a detailed and expansive tribunal of inquiry. I have, at all times, assisted it in every way I possibly could. What I will not do and have not done is to run a parallel inquiry on that matter either in the Fianna Fáil Party or in this House.

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