Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)

Deputy Costello raised this issue yesterday and if the Taoiseach was able to answer yesterday, I do not see why the Tánaiste cannot clarify what he said.

I wish to raise a matter concerning ethics legislation and, specifically, a concern that has emerged regarding the fact that, as far as we know, one individual loaned a minimum of €200,000 to an organisation campaigning on the Lisbon referendum. I ask the Tánaiste whether legislation is to be introduced to prevent people from circumventing ethics legislation, as we have seen in the recent referendum, and to prevent that from happening in the future.

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