Donegal County Council is remaining silent on the issue of councillors and council employees who failed to make any declarations of interests to the Ethics Register for 2006.
Up to 18 councillors could face prosecution for failing to return any declaration of interests and donations for the same period. Some of these are widely known to have substantial business, land and property interests.
Only two Letterkenny councillors returned their declarations, while no staff members there have made a return.
The Donegal News reported last month that several councillors have multimillion euro land and property interests.Attempts to get answers on the matter from the county registrar proved unsuccessful.
However, Letterkenny town clerk Paddy Doherty, said he would be writing to councillors and employees about their failure to make declarations.
All councillors are obliged to make a declaration under the Local Government Act 2001.
Declarations to the county council were to have been submitted by January 31st, while the town council deadline was February 28th.
It is an offence for a councillor or a local authority employee to either fail to complete an annual declaration or to provide false information according to a spokesman for the Department of Environment and Local Government.