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Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: Particularly in 2017, I did not give the matter sufficient attention. My regret in relation to that, I hope, is evident. I will explain again and again that what this is about is who put up my posters in what is largely a voluntary campaign and not recognising that a small number of them did go up in a non-voluntary way - they were paid for.

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: All that being said----

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: All that being said, the consequences of it I accept are very serious.

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: That is why I have taken the lengths that I have to explain to the Dáil and to change my expenses submissions. I will engage with SIPO in the way they deal with it.

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I am aware of that dark history. I know what it did to our politics and I do not play any part in it. The Deputy has made a number of assertions there-----

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: -----a number of assertions in regard to the awarding of State contracts. The Deputy knows that I play no part in determining who gets a contract in this State. You know that. You know in particular that I play no role in who gets a contract from the Houses of the Oireachtas. What you have done is made a series of----

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: What those kinds of assertions do is every bit as dark for the future of our politics as the consequences of the history the Deputy referred to. He knows I play no role in the allocation of any State contract. He knows it is done in an independent, competitive way by the Office of Public Works and every other State body. Not only did the Deputy make a number of assertions that he knows are...

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: It was appointed by the Department of the Taoiseach. It was a decision that was made by the Department of the Taoiseach and it is precisely in recognition of the kind of issues and concerns that might arise in relation to a task force within my own constituency that it is being run out of the Department of the Taoiseach, not any State body or any Government Department I am responsible for.

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The 2016 one has already been amended, and the 2020 one will be amended very shortly.

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I have already said that I am amending my corporate donations for Fine Gael Dublin Central.

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I have already said that a revision will be made to take account of a donation that was inadvertently received to the commercial value of the van that was used. I have already said I am willing to do that.

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: And the expenses for-----

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I am answering the Deputy's question. We have amended the 2016 statement and we will amend the 2020 statement shortly. I am not aware of the need to make a revision to any other donations form apart from the corporate one, which will happen shortly, and we are refunding back a share of that, which l acknowledge should not have been received, which was the commercial use of a van.

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I have made clear on a number of occasions-----

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I have made clear that these were expenses that were accrued by Fine Gael Dublin Central, and the only-----

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy is asking-----

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy is asking me a question and I am going to answer it. My understanding, having assessed this matter thoroughly, is the main donation here that needs to be reviewed is from a corporate perspective, which has now happened, or, excuse me, which will happen.

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: I am not aware of this concept of a donation in kind. What I am referring to here is an expense.

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: My expenses form has been submitted and-----

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: -----I have made clear on a number of occasions that these are expenses that were accrued by Fine Gael Dublin Central.