A Dublin publican has told the Mahon Tribunal he does not know if the late Liam Lawlor used his business to cover up payments totalling £57,000.
Louis Fitzgerald said he knew his manager in the Palmerstown House pub cashed cheques for the Lawlor family in 1992 but he had no dealings with those cheques.
He said he was involved in an exchange of cheques with Mr Lawlor in which the then TD wrote a post-dated cheque in return for a loan of £15,000.
Mr Fitzgerald said this post-dated cheque later bounced and the tribunal heard it took him three years and the threat of legal action before Mr Lawlor repaid the money.
'No financial records'
Horse trainer Jim Bolger has told the Mahon Tribunal he has no financial records concerning the sale of a foal to former lobbyist Frank Dunlop.
The tribunal is querying Mr Dunlop's testimony that he purchased an animal from Mr Bolger for nearly £64,000 which died in 1992 without being named.
Mr Bolger said he would have recorded the sale at the time but did not keep the records after six years.
He cannot remember issuing a receipt or invoice to Mr Dunlop and said this would not be unusual in the horse racing industry.
Mr Bolger said the birth of a bay filly sired by Project Manager out of Fauchee was recorded with Weatherby's in May 1992.
He said the animal died after a collision with another animal just over a year later but he cannot remember if he informed Weatherby's. And he said it was not usual to have a passport for a foal that had not been named.
Mr Bolger said Mr Dunlop must have been mistaken when he recorded that he purchased a share in a horse for £20,000 in 1992.
He admitted that he and Mr Dunlop were part of a consortium attempting to develop CityWest.
But Mr Bolger denied ever being actively involved or offering his land to borrow money.
Mr Dunlop is recorded as stating this by his bank manager but Mr Bolger said he knew nothing about it.
Dunlop received £300k amid claims
Earlier, the tribunal heard that former lobbyist Frank Dunlop got £300,000 from businessman Owen O'Callaghan after allegations about the Quarryvale development appeared in the media.
Mr Dunlop used the money to make a tax settlement in 1998 after rival developer Tom Gilmartin made a statement to the inquiry. But Mr Dunlop described Mr Gilmartin as a delusional buffoon.
Mr Dunlop admitted that he was concerned that payments he received from Mr O'Callaghan through a company called Shefran would become public knowledge.
He paid the Revenue Commissioners more than £240,000 in October 1998, days after a newspaper report that Mr Gilmartin had sworn an affidavit to the then Flood Tribunal.
Mr Dunlop said he believed that he had a tax liability from the Shefran payments but he did not reveal payments from other developers.
He got £300,000 from Mr O'Callaghan to settle the liability.
Mr Dunlop has told the tribunal he received a total of £1.8m from Mr O'Callaghan for the Quarryvale development but denies that the Cork developer knew bribes were paid to councillors.
He also denied an allegation by Mr Gilmartin that Mr O'Callaghan was trying to shut him up and stop him talking to the media in 1998.
