The former Taoiseach, Mr Charles Haughey, will return to Dublin Castle tomorrow as the Moriarty and Flood tribunals resume their public sittings after an eight-week break.
Mr Haughey is due to face further questioning on the circumstances surrounding his receipt of more than £8 million between 1979 and 1996. The tribunal has not identified the source of all this money and will be seeking Mr Haughey's assistance.
When the tribunal rose last July, Mr Haughey was being questioned about his knowledge of a debt of more than £1 million with AIB which was repaid by various donors, including the property developer Mr Patrick Gallagher.
The former Taoiseach said the debt was "of minor importance" to him at the time as he was fighting for his political survival.
The debt was discharged around the time he became leader of Fianna Fail and Taoiseach in December 1979.
Mr Haughey, moreover, told the tribunal he had "forgotten" about an outstanding debt of £110,000 which he appeared to still owe to AIB. He said he had not dishonoured it. Rather, "the bank never came to me seeking repayment".
Mr Haughey is also due to be questioned about his role in collecting money for the medical fund which he initiated for the late Mr Brian Lenihan in 1989. More than £230,000 was raised yet only about a third of this appeared to have been spent on Mr Lenihan's treatment in the US.
As previously, Mr Haughey is due to give evidence for only two hours each morning, with other witnesses taking up the afternoon session. His evidence is expected to take a number of weeks to complete.
The Flood tribunal will also resume its investigations tomorrow, examining the manner in which radio licences were awarded when Mr Ray Burke was minister for communications. It is due to hear further evidence from businessman Mr James Stafford, the co-founder of Century Radio, which was awarded the first national commercial radio licence in 1989.
Mr Stafford is likely to face further questioning on the donation by his colleague in Century, Mr Oliver Barry, of £35,000 to the Fianna Fail minister, Mr Ray Burke, in May 1989. This came four months after Century was awarded the licence and two months after Mr Burke intervened on Century's behalf in a row with RTE over transmission fees.
In evidence given last July, Mr Stafford alleged he was told Mr Burke and the former Fianna Fail press officer, Mr P.J. Mara, were operating a "price list" for allocating broadcasting licences. The amounts specified were £90,000 for a television licence, £75,000 for a Dublin licence and £25,000 for a local licence.
Having already spent about a week in the witness box, Mr Stafford is likely to continue giving evidence for another week. Mr Burke and Mr Barry, who both deny his allegations, are likely then to give evidence.
The tribunal intends calling all 12 former members of the IRTC which awarded the licence to Century; they include prominent names such as travel agent Ms Gillian Bowler, public relations executive Ms Terry Prone, and current chief executive of the Labour Relations Commission, Mr Kieran Mulvey. A number of IRTC employees and former executives of RTE will also be required to give evidence, as will broadcaster Mr Gay Byrne.
With this module of the tribunal expected to continue for several months, it is unlikely that the evidence of the public relations executive Mr Frank Dunlop on the separate controversy surrounding rezoning at Quarryvale in west Dublin will resume until late autumn at the earliest.
Most observers expect the tribunal, which began its work in November 1997, to continue hearings until at least mid-2001.
Meanwhile, the Lindsay tribunal resumes today with Mr John McStay, an insolvency expert who has been hired by the Irish Blood Transfusion Service to examine its accounts during the 1980s, due to begin his evidence.
The tribunal was told last Friday that Mr McStay will blame the Department of Health for failing to fund the Blood Transfusion Service Board adequately. He is also due to report on the relationship between the BTSB and the Travenol pharmaceutical firm.
Dr Helena Daly, a locum doctor who led treatment provision for haemophiliacs in the State in mid-1985, told the tribunal last week that she had expressed reservations about the board's choice of Travenol to supply blood-clotting agents to haemophiliacs. However, she said, her comments to the BTSB's national director, Dr Jack O'Riordan, and a senior technical officer, Mr Sean Hanratty, were ignored.