Frank Dunlop has told the Flood Tribunal that he stands over everything contained in his written statement.
The former Government press secretary and political lobbyist's statement to the Tribunal details what he called a 'nexus' of councillors who would offer to sign rezoning motions or who, when approached to sign, would ask for money.
Mr Dunlop says he was quite friendly with the former TD, Liam Lawlor, and the two would allude to the requirement or demand for money from councillors in relation to rezoning motions.
He said earlier that the first time he heard about corruption in planning was when a councillor told him it would 'cost him' to get land at Quarry Vale rezoned. Mr Dunlop said the North Dublin County Councillor, Sean Kilbride, made this comment.
Businessman's wife gives evidence
Earlier, the wife of businessman, Jim Kennedy, told the Tribunal that journalists had conducted what she described as a slanderous media campaign against her husband over the past three years.
Antoinette Kennedy said she had never discussed with her husband the serious allegations that Frank Dunlop had made against him.
Mr Dunlop has alleged that Jim Kennedy gave him £25,000 to bribe County Councillors in connection with lands in Carrickmines in south Dublin.
A clearly irritated Ms Kennedy accused the media having conducted a savage campaign against her husband. She said if the Tribunal was fair it would fully vindicate him. But she could not explain why he was refusing to co-operate with the Tribunal.
Ms Kennedy said she heard a little about the lands at Carrickmines in the late 1980s but never heard another word until RTE's Chief News Correspondent, Charlie Bird, started standing outside their amusement arcade and "telling the nation about the lands in Carrickmines".
Ms Kennedy said she did not know about her husband's dealings. She said she had become a director of one of his companies for "convenience".
The Chairman of the Tribunal asked Ms Kennedy to refrain from making speeches after she said her husband and her amusement arcade business were being victimised.
She explained how the tax inspectors, the fire inspectors, customs and excise had been in examining her business. "We have had the CAB come in in the middle of a busy day." Ms Kennedy added "they want to search the office for corruption, as if its going to be sitting on top of a pool table."
Antoinette Kennedy said journalists had conducted what she described as a slanderous media campaign against her husband over the past three years.
Defending her husband, she said that contrary to media reports he was "no mystery man."
Mrs Kennedy said he had paid millions in tax over the years in Ireland. He paid £1.4m in 1983 and complained that he never even got a Christmas card from the Revenue.
In her evidence she stated that Jim Kennedy had decided to move abroad to make more money and pay less tax and was not a criminal for that.
She added that any money he made over the years he could justify, and there was no mystery attached.
Mrs Kennedy now runs an amusement arcade in Westmoreland Street and is a director of two building companies, Lismore builders and Lismore Homes.
She denied being a director of any other companies but the Tribunal has produced documents which show her as a director of Finnstown Homes and Ballyowen Castle Homes. Mrs Kennedy said this had slipped her mind.
