The "kitten notebook" is an authentic record of under-the-counter payments by Bovale Development, the tribunal was told yesterday. Ms Caroline Bailey confirmed that three payments to Mr James Gogarty contained in the notebook, showing transactions for the period 1990-91, were not entered at a later date.
Ms Bailey confirmed that only she, Mr Michael Bailey and Mr Tom Bailey had seen the book and had access to it.
She confirmed it was written purely for their personal information on under-the-counter transactions and that there was therefore no need to disguise the payments in it.
When asked by Mr Garrett Cooney SC, for the Murphy Group, if it was an authentic and accurate document she replied that it was.
Entries were made in the notebook for payments to Mr Gogarty on June 21st, 1990, for £5,000, on July 26th for £10,000 and in October 1990 for £15,000.
Mr Cooney requested that the forensic examiner who wrote a report on the "kitten notebook" should be brought before the tribunal to explain if the entries referring to the three payments to Mr Gogarty had been written at different dates.
Mr Justice Flood, however, said that the examiner's report did not show that the entries were out of sequence or entered at different times.
He said that was the end of the matter as far as the tribunal was concerned.