FF made vote instructions, says PR man

FIANNA FÁIL has been sharply criticised by Frank Dunlop for suggesting the party did not attempt to instruct its members on Dublin Co Council how to vote on planning issues during the late 1980s and 1990s.

Mr Dunlop told the Flood Tribunal yesterday such a claim was "retrospective, high-minded rubbish about a whip system that flies in the face of the facts. People were told what the attitude of the party was to a given development," he stressed.

Mr Dunlop said a whip was operated very carefully by an unnamed Fianna Fáil councillor up to June 1991.