Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

It was one thing to try to clean up the issue of huge donations and a small number of people giving sizeable donations to either my party or any other party and to bring in rules about what we can take, how we record it and so on. I did all that too, and I am quite happy to do that. However, if we get into a position where if one is in politics that one can have no friends and that if one is photographed with any——

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