Gilmartin hits out at FF tactics to get cash

THE Planning Tribunal’s main witness, Tom Gilmartin, has lashed out at the Fianna Fáil party for seeking money to clear up corruption in the planning system in Dublin in the late 1980s and then failing to take any action.

The former developer expressed disgust at Fianna Fáil’s treatment of him after he had made formal complaints to various authorities, including senior politicians, about the actions of Liam Lawlor and George Redmond.

Mr Gilmartin said he had been encouraged to believe a £50,000 donation that he made to the party via then Minister for the Environment Padraig Flynn in 1989 would help “smooth things out” in relation to his plans for shopping centres at Bachelor’s Walk and Quarryvale.