FG senator faces probes over lack of tax clearance cert

A Fine Gael senator is facing separate Seanad and party investigations after failing to provide a tax clearance certificate to the State’s ethics watchdog.

Pat O’Neill has breached the law by failing to provide the required documentation to the Standards in Public Office Commission (Sipo).

Mr O’Neill, who is based in Kilkenny and regarded as an ally of Environment Minister Phil Hogan, last night told the Irish Examiner he had a capital gains tax bill that he had spent the last year paying off.