Former Fianna Fáil TD, Mr Liam Lawlor, claimed yesterday that developer Mr Tom Gilmartin and two executives from a UK property company had lied in their evidence about payments of €70,000.
The tribunal had estimated that Mr Lawlor had received a total of £70,000 from Arlington Securities. This was the company which attempted with Mr Gilmartin to develop a massive shopping centre at Bachelors Walk in Dublin in the late 1980s.
Mr Lawlor said that the monies paid to him were political donations and were offered. He had not asked Mr Gilmartin for a penny.
The money was used for election purposes and for running the constituency office.
The tribunal believed he received £35,000 from Mr Gilmartin and the other half directly from the company.
Mr Gilmartin and two Arlington executives, Mr Ted Dadley and Mr Raymond Mould, had told the tribunal the money was for services and consultancy fees.
Mr Lawlor had estimated that during his 26 years in political life, he had received over £250,000 in political donations. He agreed that, on those figures, Arlington Securities had contributed one-third of the donations over the years.
Yesterday, on the second day of Mr Lawlor's evidence in this module, he was cross-examined by Mr Hugh O'Neill SC, for Mr Gilmartin, who asked if Mr Dadley and Mr Mould were "lying through their teeth" when they said that Mr Lawlor would help or smooth the passage in the corridors of power.
"I see it that they were colluding with Mr Gilmartin lying by coming in lying and Mr Dadley changed his statement when he was coming here to give evidence.
"Mr Dadley couldn't remember telephoning me to make the payment for £33,000," Mr Lawlor replied.