WATCH: Varadkar accuses McDonald of having 'brass neck' over election expenses.
The Public Expenditure Minister has been taking questions in the chamber after
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald earlier accused Minister Donohoe of misleading the Dáil in his statement last week. "A supporter, let it be said, who has secured lucrative State contracts, who was appointed to the powerful Land Development Agency by Fine Gael outside of the normal process and was appointed as chair of the North-East Inner City Programme Implementation Board."A theme of this controversy is the Minister's ever-changing story," Deputy McDonald said.She said it has been"an exercise in concealment and cover-up from start to finish.
"It's going to be a matter for people to decide whether they believe Paschal Donohoe or not," he said."I fought four general elections and I know what can happen in a campaign - particularly in a chaotic campaign.Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and then-Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe address the media at the opening of the National Economic Dialogue at Dublin Castle in June 2019. Picture by: Leah Farrell / RollingNews.
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