Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

——when he said:

What happened was that some of my own friends were over there. I think some of them were there. On the one night they collected it. Needless to say, it was not something I asked for. It was totally a surprise to me.

It appears the lads collected it, not Mr. Kilroe. I am only quoting the Taoiseach's own words to him. Does the Taoiseach still maintain that The Irish Times was "off the wall" when it stated that the money being investigated by the tribunal was between €50,000 and €100,000? We have three separate moieties: €39,000, or almost €50,000; £8,000 sterling and the other €50,000. How can the Taoiseach say that The Irish Times was "off the wall"?

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