The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has concluded his second day of evidence at the Mahon Tribunal.
It has been announced that the period of time needed to question Mr Ahern is being extended.
Initially it had been thought two half-days would be needed, but after eight hours of questioning the tribunal says it will need at least another full day.
Questioning in connection with a donation he received in Manchester in 1994 continued this afternoon.
Today Mr Ahern told the Mahon Tribunal he could not remember lodging funds into his bank account on 11 October 1994.
The funds included £8,000 sterling given to him by businessmen in Manchester and a goodwill loan from a group of friends in Dublin.
A report by Bertie Ahern's accountant Des Peelo claimed that Mr Ahern personally lodged these funds, and that he may have dealt with two named bank officials.
However, today the Taoiseach told the Mahon Tribunal that he does not remember making the lodgement, and that he never even dealt in person with one of the named bank officials, Mr Jim McNamara, with whom the Peelo report claims he could have made the lodgement.
It emerged this afternoon also that on the same day in October 1994 Celia Larkin, the Taoiseach's former partner, also made a cash lodgement at AIB O'Connell St.
Four cash lodgements which total more than £85,000 were examined by the tribunal today. All involved foreign exchange transactions, something of which Mr Ahern informed the tribunal last April.
He claims the payments consisted of goodwill loans from friends, cash from Manchester businessman Michael Wall to renovate his home and a reimbursement from his former partner Celia Larkin of funds left over from the refurbishment.
Mr Ahern said he could not understand how the tribunal moved from investigating the allegations from developer Tom Gilmartin to inquiring into all aspects of his political life, something he said not a politician in the world would accept.
The tribunal's lawyers have used bank records and exchange rates to query Mr Ahern's explanations.
But yesterday Mr Ahern said he had his own banking evidence to refute the tribunal's allegation that he received $45,000 and not sterling from Mr Wall.
Mr Ahern left Dublin Castle at around 4pm. He was both jeered and cheered on exiting the building, and said he felt 'great'.
