Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

Exactly, and then one sees a declaration that the value of it is €30,000 when there is no cost. It is totally confusing but those are the rules and I comply with them.

With regard to using Oireachtas envelopes, which I did, it is totally within my entitlement — I have had a chance to check this — to distribute what is not an electoral leaflet. I was shocked that Patricia McKenna was upset about this because only three days earlier she came to me to ask me to help her with the school her children attend. If she came to ask me to do that, I thought she might help me out. I did not think there was anything wrong with it.

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