Lawyers for Taoiseach Bertie Ahern have said he needs more time to explain an apparent conflict of evidence concerning lodgements to his Building Society account.
Mr Ahern said the lodgements to the Irish Permanent Building Society account in 1994 came from salary payments.
However a former manager for the building society has said he believes that over £15,500 came from sterling cash conversions.
Colm Ó hOisín SC for the Taoiseach said they had only received documentation recently and their client had been out of the country.
He said the Taoiseach will be replying to the tribunal in due course.
Former Irish Permanent manager Blair Hughes said he cannot offer any other explanation for the lodgements.
Mr Hughes was shown documentation surrounding the cash lodgements of odd sum amounts at the Drumcondra branch of the Irish Permanent between March and October 1994.
Over £11,500 was lodged to Bertie Ahern's account and more than £2,000 each to the accounts of his daughters Cecelia and Georgina.
Mr Hughes accepted that each lodgement was preceded by a sterling purchase by the branch and he said this facility would only be given to account holders.
He could not offer any other explanation for the lodgements, apart from them being being the result of sterling conversions.
The tribunal heard most of the lodgements were made by Mr Ahern's former constituency secretary Grainne Carruth, who is due to give evidence this afternoon.
Another lodgement of a cheque for an uneven sum of just over £10,000 was made in April 1995 by current TD Cyprian Brady who was then running Mr Ahern's office at St Lukes.
