Lawlor ‘had talks on lands in Dáil’

FORMER Fianna Fáil TD Liam Lawlor is alleged to have used offices in Leinster House to discuss plans for lands at the centre of the Flood Tribunal’s planning bribes investigation.

Mr Lawlor, who denies any knowledge of the lands owned by Jackson Way Properties at Carrickmines in south County Dublin, is said to have arranged a meeting with planning consultants at the Dáil in 1991 to prepare a submission about the property for the Dublin County Development Plan then under review.

The claim, by architect Brian O'Flanagan, an employee of D McCarthy & Co planning consultants, supports lobbyist Frank Dunlop's assertion that Mr Lawlor was heavily involved in the lands and efforts to rezone them.