Former assistant Dublin city and county manager George Redmond cannot sue the planning tribunal over corruption findings it made against him, the High Court has ruled.

JMCC Holdings, the engineering company at the centre of the planning corruption tribunal, paid out €16.3 million dividends to its shareholders last year.

Taxpayers should not be expected to pay countless millions to keep the Mahon Tribunal into planning corruption going for more than a decade, it was claimed tonight.