Tom Gilmartin's former solicitor has denied that developers met in his office to agree a golden handshake of up to £750,000 for then Foreign Affairs Minister Ray Burke.
Mr Gilmartin testified at the Mahon Tribunal that his solicitor, Seamus Maguire, told him developers Baileys and JMSE met with Mr Burke in his office in 1997 and agreed to pay him up to £750,000.
Mr Gilmartin said the idea was that Mr Burke would resign quietly and forestall the planning and payments tribunal.
But today Mr Maguire said the meeting never happened.
He added that when he first became aware of the allegation he took as malicious and only discovered last June that it was Mr Gilmartin who was making the claim.
Under questioning by tribunal counsel Mr Maguire agreed he was saying the allegation was 'total fabrication'.
He also denied advising Mr Gilmartin it would be legal to give a £50,000 donation to then Environment Minister Padraig Flynn in 1989.
Mr Maguire also said Mr Gilmartin did not tell him of demands for money from politicians or a garda inquiry into corruption even though he agreed he was Mr Gilmartin's friend and confidante at the time.
He also denied that he witnessed developer Owen O'Callaghan falling out of a broom cupboard while trying to eavesdrop on Mr Gilmartin.
But he said Mr Gilmartin had alleged to him that Mr O'Callaghan had been 'ear wigging' when the two men held a private meeting in a side room at AIB.
Dunlop tells of Cllr's 'exorbitant' demands
Former lobbyist Frank Dunlop has told the tribunal he considered a particular Dublin councillor as capable of making exorbitant demands for money.
Mr Dunlop said his then client, Mr O'Callaghan, returned 'spitting with fire' after meeting Fianna Fáil councillor Finbarr Hanrahan in 1992 and assumed there had been a demand for a bribe.
He said Mr O'Callaghan had previously confirmed that Mr Gilmartin complained about a demand for £100,000 by Mr Hanrahan in return for supporting the Quarryvale rezoning.
Mr O'Callaghan 'walked around the block' with Mr Hanrahan in O'Connell St before a crucial vote on Quarryvale in December 1992.
Mr Dunlop said he warned his client he would be 'walking into the lion's den' by meeting Mr Hanrahan who he had heard stories about.
He said Mr Hanrahan, a Lucan councillor and political rival of the late Liam Lawlor, had told him personally on one occasion that 'nothing happens for nothing'.
He said Mr O'Callaghan was normally even tempered but returned spitting with fire after meeting Mr Hanrahan.
He assumed that Mr O'Callaghan had refused to pay in return for support and Mr Hanrahan later voted against Quarryvale.
Mr Dunlop has also denied concealing a £55,000 cash payment to a senior politician from the tribunal.
The tribunal heard that Mr Dunlop withdrew that amount in cash after an 'urgent' credit transfer from developer Owen O'Callaghan shortly after a general election was called in November 1992.
Patricia Dillon SC for the inquiry pointed out that Mr Dunlop already had enough cash in his accounts to cover his known 'piecemeal' payments to councillors at the time.
Mr Dunlop said he could not say specifically what he did with the money but would have kept it at home and used it later for personal use or payments to politicians.
He admitted it was the biggest cash withdrawal he ever made.
