Explainer: Why is Paschal Donohoe still in hot water over political donation declarations?

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Paschal Donohoe is set to make another Dáil statement and answer questions from the opposition on Tuesday

FIVE DAYS AGO, Paschal Donohoe appeared at Merrion Square to make an apology over his failure to declare a donation of services to the ethics watchdog during the 2016 General Election campaign.

Then, on Thursday during a questions session, he confirmed that he was planning to make a further statement to the Dáil next week. The donation itself was provided by businessman Michael Stone, CEO of the Designer Group engineering firm. In total, Donohoe said that €1,057 was left unaccounted for in his declarations to Sipo, which is his valuation of the labour and use of the company van.

Superdraw tickets The most recent revelation came from Donohoe on Wednesday, where he told the Dáil that he had sold Stone, who provided the labour and company van, tickets to the Fine Gael superdraw.He said that Stone had “made a donation to Fine Gael by the purchase of superdraw tickets which was sold by me”.

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