Former lobbyist Frank Dunlop said he had no regrets as he finished his evidence to the Mahon Tribunal today.
Mr Dunlop has given evidence for 124 days concerning allegations of corruption in the planning process and was first contacted by the tribunal inquiry 10 years ago.
Speaking after completing his final cross-examination he told the three tribunal judges that it had been an extraordinarily difficult process.
But he said that it was pleasurable to know that all involved have grown through it and will live.
'It's not the end of the world', he said.
The only question in contention now he said was whether the tribunal's reports or his book are published first.
Speaking to reporters afterwards, Mr Dunlop said after his evidence he would not think the tribunal will think the planning process in Dublin was run by angels.
Earlier, Mr Dunlop denied concocting a bribe payment to a councillor to cover up a £55,000 payment to a senior politician.
Mr Dunlop admits he cannot account for what he did with the £55,000 in cash he withdrew during the 1992 election campaign.
David Burke BL said Frank Dunlop had given conflicting accounts in private interviews of meeting with then Fine Gael councillor Liam T Cosgrave and giving him a £5,000 bribe before a funeral.
Mr Dunlop said during the private interview that the church was some miles away in Mount Merrion but his diary entry refers to Newtownpark Avenue.
In his diary the meeting was recorded with the symbol for at, (@), while all other meetings that day were recorded with the word 'at'.
Mr Burke who represents the former Fine Gael councillor, the late Tom Hand, put it to Mr Dunlop that he had added this meeting in his diary at a later date to cover up the paper trail for the £55,000.
It was part of £70,000 'whizzed up' by electronic transfer by developer Owen O'Callaghan on the day of the launch of the Fianna Fáil manifesto at the Treasury Building.
Mr Dunlop denied that instead of meeting Mr Cosgrave, he had been in or near Treasury Building giving money to a senior politician.
He was told that Mr Cosgrave denies meeting Mr Dunlop before a funeral and says he got a £2,000 political donation in Buswell's Hotel.
Tribunal hears of Shefran cheques
This afternoon an accountant for developer Owen O'Callaghan told the Mahon Tribunal that he signed cheques for substantial amounts of money without being told what they were for.
Aidan Lucey who co-signed cheques for Mr O'Callaghan's company said he was just a 'messenger boy'.
The tribunal is investigating a series of round figure VAT-free payments by Owen O'Callaghan to his then lobbyist Frank Dunlop through the Shefran company.
A total of £175,000 was paid to Shefran from Mr O'Callaghan's company, Riga, during the early 1990s when the developer was attempting to get land rezoned in west Dublin for the Liffey Valley Shopping Centre development.
Mr Lucey was asked about three Shefran cheques he co-signed between January and June 1991 totalling £80,000.
He said Mr O'Callaghan would just have asked him to sign them.
Mr Lucey said he signed one leaving the payee and amount blank for Mr O'Callaghan to fill out later.
He said he did not appear to have invoices for the cheques at the time as these invoices were not date stamped. He said that if he did have invoices he would have stamped them.
