Gilmartin told Dana’s brother-in-law about project difficulties

A brother-in-law of independent MEP Rosemary ‘Dana’ Scallon has told the Mahon Tribunal that property developer Tom Gilmartin told him about the problems he was experiencing in the late 1980s.

Colm Scallon said Mr Gilmartin told him during a meeting in 1990 about the difficulties he faced while trying to get his Quarryvale and Bachelor’s Walk projects off the ground.

Mr Scallon, who was a property consultant in Dublin at the time, said be brought Mr Gilmartin to see Fianna Fáil's national organiser Sean Sherwin because he thought the matter should be brought to a higher political power.