Former lobbyist Frank Dunlop has described how he got £30,000 from developers behind Dublin's Citywest business park to make cash donations to politicians in the early 1990s.
Mr Dunlop has told the Mahon Tribunal how made up false invoices covered payments from Davy Hickey Properties, which was also trying to develop the Baldoyle Racecourse lands.
He told the tribunal that he asked Director Brendan Hickey for £20,000 in 1991 and £10,000 in 1992 because he knew he was going to get donation requests for the local and General Elections in those years.
He said Mr Hickey did not ask him to account for how the money was spent.
And the tribunal heard that the £20,000 was described as PR payment in accounts by a company related to Davy Hickey Properties.
Davy Hickey Properties, described as the property arm of Davy Stockbrokers, got permission for the Citywest development in 1990 but attempts to get the Baldoyle lands rezoned failed in 1993.
