TD received €1.8m in donations and payments

Mr Liam Lawlor has received €1.8 million in political donations and consultancy payments during his career, his lawyers have told the High Court. Almost €6 million was lodged into his accounts.

Mr Lawlor provided the Flood tribunal last year with a list of 50 people from whom he had received money. The list included details about the reason for each payment and the sum involved.

Mr John Trainor SC, for Mr Lawlor, said that the largest contribution on the list was from the building company Lark Developments, which paid the TD £100,000. The court has already heard evidence that Mr Lawlor furnished fake invoices to the company in respect of the money received.

Attempts yesterday to contact the managing director of the company, Mr Tony Murray, were unsuccessful.

Counsel said that the meat company Kepak had paid Mr Lawlor £80,000 in political contributions in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. The money was paid in cash and cheques and was given as political contributions to his election campaigns.

Mr Trainor said that, in response to a letter from the politician's solicitor, lawyers for Kepak had stated that they were not aware of any relationship between the company and Mr Lawlor. He pointed out that the principal of Kepak, Mr Noel Keating, died in 1993.

Kepak last night said there was "no basis whatsoever" for Mr Lawlor's assertion. The company had checked its records and there was no record of any payments to the TD, a spokesman said.

Mr Lawlor has also listed payments of £60,000 from the lobbyist Mr Frank Dunlop. The money was paid in cash and cheques and was paid as political contributions to his election campaigns.

National Toll Roads also appears on the list of donors. It was already known that NTR paid Mr Lawlor two sums totalling £74,000 in the early 1990s, but the TD has now revealed a number of additional payments.

These include cheques for £10,000 and £3,000 from the NTR chairman, Mr Tom Roche snr, a £1,200 contribution in 1993 and £1,000 paid during a charity golf classic.

Mr Trainor put the total of the payments at £1.52 million, but said this was later "recalculated" as £1.38 million. He revealed the various contributions during submissions with the aim of showing that Mr Lawlor had complied with the orders by the tribunal by providing full information about the payments he had received.

With the exception of the payments from NTR, Mr Dunlop and Arlington Securities, the information available to the tribunal arose because of Mr Lawlor's efforts to seek information from donors, he said.

•The Taoiseach is expected to agree to a strong Dáil motion condemning Mr Lawlor for his failure to co-operate with the Flood tribunal and possibly calling on him to resign, writes Mark Brennock, Political Correspondent.

The Government is considering the text of a motion, suggested by the Labour Party, condemning Mr Lawlor and calling on him to resign forthwith from the Dáil.

The Government Chief Whip, Mr Séamus Brennan, is understood to have indicated broad support for such a robust motion at a meeting of party whips on Wednesday. However, it is not clear whether the Government will agree to calling for his resignation.