Two reports into allegations that a Cabinet member received €5,000 worth of drink and cigars from Aer Rianta in the early 1990s are expected to be released tomorrow.
The Government is apparently confident that a report from Aer Rianta and an internal Department of Transport will fail to substantiate claims that the Minister for Transport, Mr Brennan, received and refused to pay for €5,000 worth of drink and cigars from the company.
However, Aer Rianta is understood to have a large volume of documentation which remains to be examined.
Trawls of files in the Department of Transport and Aer Rianta over the past 48 hours are understood to have found no documentation to back up the claims.
Mr Brennan yesterday dismissed the allegations, saying that, to the best of his recollection, "I never personally received, authorised or had knowledge of the ordering, purchase or delivery of the alleged goods referred to in the Sunday Independent article of Sunday last."
Mr Brennan was the minister for transport, responsible for Aer Rianta, from 1989 to 1993.
A spokesman for the Minister said he had taken two days to issue the statement as he had wanted to talk to everyone he had worked with at the time to reassure himself that his own recollection was accurate.