Former FF minister 'offered bribe for planning favours'

A former junior minister has told the Planning Tribunal that he was offered a bribe to vote in favour of planning applications in the 1990s.

A former junior minister has told the Planning Tribunal that he was offered a bribe to vote in favour of planning applications in the 1990s.

Chris Flood, who was a Fianna Fáil councillor at the time, says he was told by unnamed developers that there would be "something in it for him" if they could get their plans approved.

Mr Flood, who was in the Tallaght ward of Dublin County Council, received a £500 donation for election expenses in 1992 which he declared at the time.

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