Dublin West TD Mr Liam Lawlor is due to appear at the Flood tribunal this afternoon to be questioned about financial documents he was asked to produce.
Yesterday, Mr Patrick Han ratty SC, for the tribunal, said Mr Lawlor would not be available until 2.15 p.m., due to the visit of President Clinton.
Later, another tribunal lawyer Ms Patricia Dillon SC, told the tribunal that Mr Lawlor would be the only witness and it was at his request that he appear in the afternoon.
Mr Lawlor has been called to the tribunal following his lengthy legal fight to prevent it investigating his finances. The Supreme Court ruled last month that he must give evidence about his financial affairs in public.
He had sought to appear in private before the tribunal but the court ruled the chairman was entitled to decide that Mr Lawlor give evidence in public.
It is expected he will be in the witness box for the full day tomorrow. He will give his main evidence when the tribunal begins another module dealing with rezoning issues next year.
Yesterday, Ms Maeve McManus, former personal assistant to Mr Oliver Barry and an ex-director of Quality Artiste Management, Mr Barry's company, resumed her evidence.
Ms McManus said Mr Barry had mentioned to her in May 1989 that Mr Ray Burke, then minister for communications was looking for a donation.
"He said he (Mr Burke) was looking for a large amount," she said.
Asked if Mr Barry had indicated why Mr Burke was looking for a payment, she said he had not.
Ms McManus was referred to a statement of expenses which she said Mr Barry had dictated to her at the end of 1990. In that statement was a sum of £35,000 which she said she assumed was the payment to Mr Burke. She just put two and two together.
Asked about why she assumed that payment to Mr Burke was for Century as she had previously stated, Ms McManus said £35,000 was an extremely large donation to give to a political party, Mr Burke or any other deputy. At that particular time, Mr Barry would not have been flush with cash in the office because of his large investment in Century.
Earlier, Ms Dillon put it to Ms McManus that she paid £153,459 to the credit of Mr Barry by May 1992 from an Isle of Man account in her name. She also had £149,246 on deposit in the Isle of Man and a total of in excess of £300,000 had passed through the account from 1987 to 1992.
Ms McManus said she was paid £225 per week gross but she would get bonuses. She said there was never £300,000 in the Isle of Man account.