On the paper trail unearthed by the tribunal:
"Mr chairman, I have to confess to being overwhelmed by all this documentation and I find it difficult to cope with it all. It's full of complex detail and it's a long time ago."
On his bank manager in the early 1970s:
"He was perhaps a personal friend as well as manager...he was one of the old-style bank managers and very gentlemanly and he wouldn't have been in any way aggressive or anything like that, but perhaps he would draw my attention from time to time to the fact that the account was rising."
On Mr Traynor's role in his financial affairs:
"Mr Traynor, upon my departure [in 1960] would have been made a partner in Haughey Boland & Co, and from then on he would have taken to himself, or as part of the firm Haughey Boland and Co, the general management of my difficult financial affairs and overseen them."