Money-for-votes - Citizens trust Flood to reveal all

THE Flood Tribunal probe into bribery and corruption in politics and planning has already achieved much

Significantly, while other tribunals failed to apportion blame, new standards have been set by Mr Justice Feargus Flood who exposed a history of corrupt payments by developers to disgraced ex-Fianna Fáil Minister Ray Burke.

The ramifications of this investigation go to the heart of widely-held suspicions that politicians have been on the take. Beyond doubt, the planning process has been perverted by unscrupulous developers and by politicians who took bribes.