Sinn Féin, however, has defended its declaration of the payment of almost €7,000 for work during General Election 2020 and said Fine Gael was raising it to deflect attention away from Paschal Donohoe.
But Fine Gael's Minister of State Peter Burke said:"Sinn Féin originally made an inaccurate return and failed to include a poll, carried out by a London based company, and tweeted by Deputy Eoin Ó Bróin in the closing stages of the February 2020 election. It cost €7,000. How can you forget a sum like that?"
Opposition parties have formally requested the Ceann Comhairle to ask Paschal Donohoe to come before the Dáil at the earliest opportunity to make a full statement and to take questions on issues surrounding his declaration in respect of the 2016 General Election campaign. — Mícheál Lehane January 17, 2023 Labour leader Ivana Bacik said the statement must be followed by a questions and answers session with the minister in the Dáil chamber.The party is also seeking to find out who will lead the work of reforming public ethics legislation now that Mr Donohoe has stood back from this role.
The minister also said he is to recuse himself from policy decisions related to the progression of ethics legislation. Minister for Enterprise Simon Coveney described the statement given on Sunday by Mr Donohoe as very credible and helpful."But I do think that the statement that Paschal made was clear and credible on Sunday and of course if there are any further issues to be addressed in the context of the SIPO investigation, I'm sure that will happen," he said.
A total hypocritical person
Pascal's defence is... If it's Good enough for SF ...it's good enough for me? Should make coalition negotiations & a program for government a lot easier.. A poster Boy for FG.
As far as I’ve read when they noticed the non declaration they disclosed the mistake and sorted it out….
Well Pascal did you do anything wrong Oh Jesus no I didn't Ah grand so work away 😃
The 'far right' people of Ireland say resign now
They are not in Government, they aren't handing out government contracts to buddies , they aren't fraudulently obtaining planning permission for housing, they aren't leaking government contracts to ex-boyfriends when they do this, yes please investigate
How exactly does this relate to his mistakes? 2 wrong don't make one right.. does he still think he is in a schoolyard? titfortat
Yawn.
Trying to out corrupt each other. Only people that lose are the citizens