A chartered quantity surveyor told the Flood tribunal he did not recollect seeing boxes of files in the flood-damaged area of the Bovale Development auditor's offices when he assessed the damage.
On Tuesday the tribunal was told by Mr Joe O'Toole, the auditor, that boxes containing Bovale's account details for 198990 were damaged beyond repair in a flood in December 1992 and were disposed of.
Mr Gerry Gorman, the damage surveyor, also said Mr O'Toole did not claim for the damaged files, nor for their disposal. The insurance claim was modest.
Mr Gorman said he inspected the damage in the offices at Celbridge on January 7th, 1993. A burst pipe in the ceiling had been repaired and was not leaking but stains on the ceiling indicated a leak. He said a kitchenette, part of the corridor and part of the hallway had been damaged by the leak. The damage was in the non-office areas of the building.
Mr Gorman said that while he noticed metal filing cabinets he did not remember seeing boxes of documents in the kitchenette, the hall or the corridor. "I have no note of that and no recollection of there being large quantities of files in the kitchenette in particular."
He said there was an upper limit of £1,000 for a claim for lost documents but Mr O'Toole did not claim for this.
The tribunal heard that Mr O'Toole made a £2,593 claim for damages but this was never paid by the insurers. Mr Gorman said he wrote to Mr O'Toole in August 1993 with an adjusted claim but received no reply.
In January 1997 Mr O'Toole sent him a letter about the claim. He wrote back to ask if any repairs had been carried out but had no reply. The files lie dormant, he said.