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- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Paschal Donohoe: -----that has created an issue for which I now must be accountable in the context of the return of my SIPO forms and expenses, which I have done. As regards who carried out the review, I asked those who are involved in my constituency organisation and my team who have been involved in the campaign. As I said, until recently - I made a return in respect of my expenses for 2016 - I believed...
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Paschal Donohoe: To answer the question the Deputy put to me regarding the action I did not take in 2017-----
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Paschal Donohoe: -----that is one of the many issues for which I hold myself accountable. I look back at that point and what I should have done in 2017 when I became aware of the issue was to amend my electoral expenses at that time to take account of the use of a commercial van that had a value of €140 at that point. It is one of the examples of my assuming that activity had been provided on a...
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Paschal Donohoe: -----and that commercial issue I should have recognised.
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy for his two questions. To be clear, it was only as I initiated a more thorough review of the 2016 campaign in the aftermath of receiving further contact that it became apparent to me that those individuals had been paid, but they were not paid for by me-----
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Paschal Donohoe: -----or by Fine Gael Dublin Central.
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Paschal Donohoe: I acknowledge the point. The key issue here is at that point it constituted a declaration. I accept that point. The key mistake I made, which I have acknowledged to the House this evening-----
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Paschal Donohoe: -----was an acknowledgement that I had assumed they were all done on a voluntary basis.
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Paschal Donohoe: As regards the number of posters that were put up, I am afraid I have not been able to determine how many posters were put up but what I have been able to determine-----
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Paschal Donohoe: I do not know if the Deputy is interested in my answer or my head but what he is going to get is-----
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Paschal Donohoe: -----the best answers that I have available-----
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Paschal Donohoe: The best answer that I have available is that-----
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Paschal Donohoe: -----I am not able to determine how many posters were available------
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Paschal Donohoe: -----but I am able to determine-----
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Paschal Donohoe: All the information I have, I have shared.
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Paschal Donohoe: As I said, I have not been able to determine the number of posters that were put up but, on the information that has been supplied to me, I have been able to determine the commercial value of the labour that was involved in putting up the posters-----
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Paschal Donohoe: -----and the commercial value of the vehicles that were involved in doing it.
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Paschal Donohoe: They form most of the revision that needs to be made from an expenses point of view. As I have indicated to the House, however, a further revision needs to be made with regard to what I now accept was a corporate donation that I have now acted on with SIPO.
- Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)
Paschal Donohoe: Thank you Ceann Comhairle. As I laid out in my statement to this House last Wednesday, I have been undertaking a review of my 2016 general election expenses in recent weeks. I also reviewed expenses incurred during the 2020 general election. In seeking to determine the full facts of the matter, I consulted with the local organisation in Fine Gael about any involvement from Michael Stone in...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ethics in Public Office (24 Jan 2023)
Paschal Donohoe: I am happy to inform the Deputy that the review to which his question refers has been completed and a report on it was submitted to Government by my predecessor, Minister McGrath, in December. The Government approved the Review Report‘s publication and agreed to the preparation of a General Legislative Scheme to reform the legislation informed by the review's outcome. On foot of this,...