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

Róisín Shortall: Is that correct?

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

Róisín Shortall: No.

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

Róisín Shortall: The Minister is using expenses and donations-----

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

Róisín Shortall: I am not talking-----

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

Róisín Shortall: I ask the Ceann Comhairle to just bear with me for a couple of moments. I am not talking about the corporate donation. I am talking about the donations in kind that the Minister got with people being paid to put up his posters and for the provision of vans. The Minister last week said, as I understand it, that they were actually donations to the party, so how did the Minister-----

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

Róisín Shortall: No. I am looking for an answer to this question.

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

Róisín Shortall: How did the Minister relay that information to the party that they were donations to the party?

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

Róisín Shortall: Did the Minister, as he was required to do, get an acknowledgement-----

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

Róisín Shortall: -----of that donation? Under the guidelines the Minister is required to get an acknowledgement from the party if he is saying that the donations went to the party.

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

Róisín Shortall: The Minister is pleading ignorance.

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

Róisín Shortall: It is in the general election guidelines.

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

Róisín Shortall: Did the Minister get an acknowledgement of that?

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

Róisín Shortall: These are the guidelines for the election.

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

Róisín Shortall: The point was made last week that the question is not about the fact that errors were made or that issues arose but about how those issues are responded to when they arise and how those errors are responded to when made. It has to be said that, in their response to this, the Minister and his Government have made a complete hames of it. That is a charitable reading of the situation. At the...

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

Róisín Shortall: That is a different point.

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

Róisín Shortall: No.

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

Róisín Shortall: With all due respect, the Minister should just answer the question.

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

Róisín Shortall: The Minister is talking down the clock now.

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

Róisín Shortall: Okay-----

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

Róisín Shortall: I am taking that as the Minister's answer.