Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Dail Éireann — 2023-01-24
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Paschal Donohoe (FG), Dublin Central

I thank the Deputy for his questions. It is important to be clear, when he uses the word "donation", that what exactly we are referring to here is an inadvertent corporate donation that I have now declared and will return to SIPO. The donation he referred to repeatedly that is at the heart of this is the issue of postering and the donation to which he refers is the commercial value that is attributed to posters that I did not know were being paid for and that I assumed to be voluntary. Every time he uses the word "donation", which he is correct to raise-----

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Sitting date: 2023-01-24