Bertie agrees payments were ‘memorable’

DURING his third day of questioning, the Taoiseach agreed the stg£68,000 in five payments he was being quizzed over were “memorable”.

Bertie agrees payments were ‘memorable’

He also agreed the inquiry had begun its investigations without knowing about even one of the transactions, all of which involved foreign exchanges. There were questions about his evidence over a withdrawal of IR£50,000 from partner Celia Larkin’s bank account. He eventually purchased stg£30,000 but failed to tell the inquiry this until recently.

DES O’NEILL: We have a position where we’re trying to trace the money. We find that the money comes out of your account as IR£50,000 on the 5th of December and goes into Ms Larkin’s account where it stays until the 19th of January of the following year.

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