In her second statement in two days on the NIB controversy, the Fianna Fail backbench TD, Ms Beverley Cooper-Flynn, has claimed that allegations made by an anonymous man on RTE television are lies.
She demanded yesterday that the station and the investigative reporter, Charlie Bird, withdraw the allegations about her "with the same prominence as their original report".
The Sunday Independent named a man it claimed was the person who alleged on RTE television that Ms Cooper-Flynn, while an employee of NIB, had assured investors in the controversial Clerical Medical International savings product that their money would be safe from the Revenue Commissioners. However, according to Ms Cooper-Flynn, she never spoke to this man and had no communications with him.
"RTE appear to be standing over their story which, they say, was `based on a number of sources'. They also say that I had been `repeatedly offered' an opportunity to reply to the allegations about me. I should set the record straight," she said.
Denying she had received "repeated" offers of interviews from RTE, Ms Cooper-Flynn claimed she had been asked on June 18th to meet Mr Bird, but could not do so for work reasons.
"Some time that night Charlie Bird had a letter, which contained a series of anonymous allegations about me, placed under the door of my hotel room. That was the extent of RTE's repeated efforts."
RTE has said it will not reveal any of its sources, without their consent.