Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

I am not trying to cherry-pick the questions. The point I made on the political funds was that at that time there was no such thing as a political account. Everybody at that time would have lodged fundraising moneys, if they did not relate to the constituency, into their own accounts. I did not do so because I always kept them separate even though there was no obligation to do that. I know that people on all sides of the House did that. If one reads the debate on the public office Bill, one will read what people did at that time.

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