George Redmond has increased his estimate of the amount of money he received from building developers in 1987 and 1988 after being admonished by Mr Justice Flood.
On Friday Mr Redmond told the tribunal he received between £8,000 and £10,000 from each of two building developers. He wrote the names of the developers on a piece of paper that day and passed them to the tribunal.
However, when he was asked about the same two unnamed developers during the afternoon session of the tribunal yesterday, he said they had each given him approximately £20,000.
Asked by counsel for the tribunal, Mr Des O'Neill SC, to account for the "hundred-fold increase since you were last in the witness-box", Mr Redmond replied that it was because of the "admonishment by His Worship" [Mr Justice Flood].
During the morning session Mr Justice Flood had warned Mr Redmond that he could be forced to pay his own legal costs and face a fine or imprisonment if he provided the tribunal with misleading information.
During the afternoon session Mr Redmond also apologised for his memory. "I know that His Worship thinks I am difficult when I can't remember specifics", he told Mr O'Neill.
The tribunal heard that there were 11 references in Mr Redmond's 1988 diary to one of the developers who gave him money. Mr O'Neill described this man as "the principal of a large firm of house-builders in Dublin".
Mr Redmond said he had tried to interest the developer in purchasing council lands. He had also met him about getting land for a possible road in the Castleknock area. The man had paid him for advice, but he would not be able to say what that advice was unless he saw the relevant planning files. Mr Redmond received the money in cash in the Dublin County Council offices.
Mr O'Neill asked Mr Redmond to write out a narrative account of his dealings with this man before the tribunal resumes this morning.
The other person from whom he received money during his time as a council official was involved in a "substantial development company". The person started paying him in 1988, and paid him first in cash in the vestibule of the county council offices in O'Connell Street. The money was paid for "general assistance and advice".
Mr Redmond also told the tribunal of a deceased politician who, he says, was partly employed by the owners of land at Santry Court. Mr Redmond said that this man, who was the whip of his party's council group, was one of the politicians who visited his offices most frequently. He had a good number of meetings with him "about the possible acquisition of Santry Court".
Mr Redmond said he had hoped the council would acquire the lands so that open space in the area could be increased. "It was one of my personal objectives and I thought it would be wonderful if we could get it."
He wrote down the name of the person he believed was employing the councillor.
The tribunal heard of a meeting between Mr Redmond and a politician above the rank of councillor on June 20th, 1988. Mr O'Neill pointed out the name and telephone number of the politician in Mr Redmond's diary for 1988. Mr Redmond said that if a meeting took place between them, it might have been about matters related to the function of his office at the time, or "an emergency local cause".
He recalled having spoken to that politician previously about a "serious personnel matter" which involved a staff member who was "in a certain amount of trouble". The politician was "still very active in local politics", Mr Redmond said.
Another politician, mentioned in a diary entry of January 23rd, 1988, was "the most wholesome, innocuous man you ever met in your life", Mr Redmond said. Asked why he was mentioned in his diary, Mr Redmond said: "I can't imagine what it was unless it was golf."
Mr Redmond said that a number of other meetings with councillors mentioned in his diaries were of no real significance. "I was meeting councillors all the time . . . My whole day, in a manner of speaking, was in some way involved with members."
