Martin Mansergh (Fianna Fail)

I would welcome a debate on the report of the Moriarty tribunal on which I would have plenty to say. A good number of the blank cheques filled out in the period from 1982 to 1987 were made payable to me for my salary and allowances as head of research for Fianna Fáil. I often wish I had been sufficiently well-off to have left one uncashed and kept it as a souvenir of a cheque signed "Haughey, MacSharry and Ahern". It would be a great exhibit for the debate.

With regard to the so-called Ronseal factor, I am proud of Fianna Fáil's partnership with the Progressive Democrats over the past ten years and the successful government it has delivered. If things had gone otherwise, we could have been in Government with the Labour Party for ten years.