Dunne faces quiz over meeting with tax chief

FORMER supermarket magnate Ben Dunne will appear before the Moriarty Tribunal today to answer questions about a meeting with Revenue Commissioners chairman Seamus Paircéir in 1987 to discuss a controversial tax bill issued to Dunnes Stores.

The tribunal has heard evidence that the meeting between the two was held at the request of the then Taoiseach, Charles Haughey, at a time when Dunnes Stores had concerns about its ability to pay a multimillion-pound tax bill.

None of the three referred to the meeting when giving evidence in 1997 to an earlier inquiry - the McCracken Tribunal - which also investigated the source of large sums of money paid by businessmen to Mr Haughey.