Michael Lowry has said he wants a conclusion to the Esat Digifone controversy.
The former Minister for Communications has been giving evidence to the Moriarty Tribunal about the decision to give a mobile phone licence to the company ten years ago.
Mr Lowry told the tribunal that he never assisted or helped any of the competitors for the licence in any way.
He later told reporters that he had been under continuous investigation for nine years.
Mr Lowry took the witness stand this morning.
The tribunal is enquiring into the awarding of the second GSM mobile phone licence to the Esat Digifone consortium headed by Denis O'Brien in 1995.
Details of statements
This morning, the tribunal heard details of extensive statements made by Mr Lowry to the tribunal which detailed the contacts he had with people involved in various consortiums bidding for the licence in the run up to it being awarded.
Senior counsel John Coughlan for the tribunal outlined statements from Mr Lowry relating to meetings with Dr Tony O'Reilly at the Curragh Race Course in July 1995, and with Denis O'Brien at Hartigan's pub on Leeson Street in Dublin following the All Ireland final in September 1995.
In the statements, Mr Lowry said his discussions with Mr O'Brien were of a very general nature.
Subsequent statements from Mr Lowry also claimed that he did not seek to know or was never made aware of the marking system to be applied to the bidders for the licence.
In this statement, Mr Lowry said he wanted to make it clear that it was not his initiative that the fee for the licence be capped. He also made it clear that he never assisted or helped any of the competitors in any way.
All the evaluations of the various applications were carried out by discreet sub groups of the project team in charge of the licence awarding process, he said.
