Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

A number of Ministers plead amnesia about what happened in the building that housed their headquarters. They like to forget that much of their early campaign literature was printed by Repsol, the printing presses of which were used for the mass production of fake currency. Direct funding from a totalitarian dictatorship came on top of this. The operations of a body known as Group B are set out most clearly in an excellent book, The Lost Revolution, which is about the Ministers' former party. It would be good for the Labour Party's current and previous leaders to tell the public what they know about the funding of the party they were members of when they first became public representatives.

Sinn Féin has had much to say about the past fundraising of others. In light of its record, no one takes this seriously. Sinn Féin beats anyone when it comes to a history of sinister fundraising. Those who think the sins of the past concern other people do not understand the problem. Speeches that allow for no self-criticism are nothing but hypocritical cant. In answer to the old question about why we did nothing for 14 years, I remind the House that we did a lot.

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