Burton taken aback by zoning decisions

LABOUR TD Joan Burton believed “something improper” was going on between developers and some of her Dublin County Council colleagues in the early 1990s, she told the Mahon Tribunal yesterday.

“I was taken aback at what I experienced,” said Ms Burton, recalling some of the zoning decisions taken and the atmosphere in the chamber and its environs.

Elected to the council for the first time in June 1991, she resigned her seat in January 1993 on being appointed a minister of state in the Department of Social Welfare.