Martin Mansergh (Tipperary South, Fianna Fail)

When I was preparing in the last week the submission of my campaign accounts to the Standards in Public Office Commission, I came across a substantial lodgement only three months ago that was not a donation that I could not immediately remember or explain until I found a file which showed me it was a combination of my constituency office allowance and a telephone allowance.

This debate is not about the tribunal. It is about the Taoiseach, now into his third term, with significant achievements to his credit, peace in Northern Ireland, unprecedented prosperity, 20 years of social partnership and the best EU Presidency that President Chirac could remember.

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