Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

I do not consider I caused a problem. I did not leak anything from the tribunal, the tribunal asked me questions about Mauritius, about whether I got €15 million from O'Callaghan and about a range of other things. I gave my facts in answer to those questions and someone leaked those facts. I do not know who did it or how but I must answer those issues.

This is the level that the House gets into now, that I am asked my mortgage, why I paid capital gains tax — I answered that — why would I pay gift tax, was I at a function and did I have a private function, a Saturday night function, who ate the dinner, who drank the wine, who had water, who had Ballygowan. That is what I am meant to answer. Is that what I am to turn in here every day to do?

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