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Thu 01 Jan 2008Ex-minister did not report claim that councillors were
bribed
Former minister for the environment Michael Smith said that although a Dublin councillor told him "money was changing hands" in relation to planning decisions in 1993, he did not report the matter to a Garda investigation which he himself had established.
Mr Smith told the Mahon tribunal he was the unnamed minister, quoted in The Irish Timesin May 1993 in an article on planning corruption, who had asked a Dublin Fianna Fáil councillor if "money was changing hands", and the councillor had replied "I couldn't deny it".
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