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	RTE News - Foley to resign following Moriarty Tribunal revelations
		Earlier, the Tribunal heard that as early as 1976 the Central Bank was aware of the existence of the Ansbacher accounts.
		The Tribunal heard how, after two onsite inspections of the Guinness and Mahon bank which controlled Ansbacher in the late seventies, the Bank said it was concerned by the offshore activities.
		During the morning session, the Chairman of the Moriarty Tribunal, Mr Justice Moriarty, announced a widening of the terms of reference of the Tribunal, in relation to investigations into the Ansbacher accounts.
	www.rte.ie /news/2000/0127/moriarty.html (700 words)

	Dáil Debates Official Report - 28-1-98
		The Moriarty Tribunal was established by a resolution of this House adopted on 11 September and adopted by the Seanad on 18 September.
		The Moriarty Tribunal was established to investigate the definite matters of urgent public importance specified in the resolution passed by both Houses.
		Furthermore, a decision to establish a tribunal of inquiry or to vary the terms of reference of an already established tribunal is not a decision to be taken lightly.
	www.irlgov.ie /debates/28jan98/sect6.htm (12188 words)

	The Examiner - News From Ireland - 14, June, 2000
		Tribunal chairman, Lord Saville of Newdigate, said the issues raised in documentation about the man was of such importance to the inquiry that it would be a breach of duty to withhold it.
		The tribunal heard Brian Fee QC, the applicant’s lawyer, claim the material alleged his client had given evidence to a journalist of “certain paramilitary involvement” in events 28 years ago when 14 civilians were shot dead in Derry’s Bogside.
		The tribunal gave the applicant 24 hours to signal whether he would give a statement to the inquiry - which he has so far refused.
	ted.examiner.ie /archives/2000/june/14/current/ipage_6.htm (446 words)

	RTE News - Moriarty Tribunal calls first two witnesses
		Haughey's lawyers had asked that the Moriarty Tribunal to be adjourned until criminal charges against him have been dealt with.
		The inquiry, which is being chaired by Mr Justice Michael Moriarty, was established in September 1997 to examine the financial affairs of Charles Haughey and the former Fine Gael Minister Michael Lowry.
		Justice Moriarty tantalisingly close to the identity and political significance of the Ansbacher depositor.
	www.rte.ie /news/1999/0128/moriarty.html (466 words)

	Tribunals of Inquiry in Ireland
		This tribunal is inquiring into the infection with HIV and Hepatitis C of persons with haemophilia.
		The resolution establishing the Tribunal, which was passed by the Dáíl and Seanad, stated that it should inquire into the facts and circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting and report to the Clerk of Dáil Éireann and to make such findings and recommendations as it sees fit in relation to these matters.
		The Tribunal must also, under the terms of the resolution, report to the Clerk of the Dáil on an interim basis not later than four months from the date of its establishment on the number of parties granted representation, progress to date and the likely duration of the Tribunal's work.
	arthur.ohara.net /tribunals_of_inquiry_in_ireland.htm (745 words)

	Moriarty Tribunal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Moriarty Tribunal is an Irish Public inquiry established in 1997 into the financial affairs of politicians Charles Haughey and Michael Lowry.
		The sole member of the Tribunal is the Honourable Justice Michael Moriarty, leading to the name Moriarty Tribunal.
		As of September 2004, the Tribunal had sat on 286 days; the last sitting day was 2 March 2004 and further sittings have been suspended pending a High Court hearing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moriarty_Tribunal (574 words)

	Irish Times Article - Lowry faces questions today on alterations to documents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The tribunal is investigating whether letters supplied to it by a number of parties, including a solicitor and a consultant who acted for Mr Lowry, were altered to "avoid scrutiny" of his continued involvement in a property in England.
		His solicitor has told the tribunal by letter that the former minister "has no knowledge whatsoever" of the letters concerned and "is at a loss" to understand them.
		In a letter to Mr Vaughan in April, the solicitor to the tribunal, Mr John Davis, said it appeared that two files had been kept in connection with the matter, "one for disclosure and one to be obscured from disclosure".
	www.ireland.com /newspaper/front/2002/0730/1125832350HM1MORIARTY.html (720 words)

	2 Nov 05 Moriarty Tribunal / Speeches / In the Dail / Green Party - Green Party / Comhaontas Glas
		As regards the projected costs for the completion of the tribunal, it is impossible to predict what costs may be awarded, and to whom, by its sole member.
		The date originally envisaged for the application of the new fees to the Moriarty tribunal was 11 January 2006.
		I have my own views about the tribunals and trying to get them all to the date but where there is additional work, litigation or other issues to hold up a tribunal, particularly if this tribunal is to be finished next summer, that would be an unfair interpretation to put on it.
	www.greenparty.ie /en/in_the_dail/speeches/2_nov_05_moriarty_tribunal (1547 words)

	Irish News, July 29, 1998
		Yesterday's decision, which found the Tribunal was properly set up and had powers to carry out a full inquiry but had used unfair procedures in not telling people their bank accounts were being looked at, was immediately used in a successful challenge to the Flood Tribunal by Bovale Developments.
		FAIR procedures were not followed by the Moriarty Tribunal when it made orders compelling the discovery of documents related to financial accounts held by former Taoiseach Charles Haughey and members of his family, the Supreme Court found yesterday.
		While the Tribunal was entitled to conduct the preliminary stage of its investigations in private, and to make such orders as it considered necessary for the purpose of its functions, that did not mean it was not, in the making of such orders, obliged to follow fair procedures.
	archives.tcm.ie /irishexaminer/1998/07/29/ihead.htm (5806 words)

	Breaking news from the world of the Tribunals
		THE Moriarty Tribunal report, expected to be published today or tomorrow, will clear former Taoiseach Charles J Haughey of wrongdoing during his controversial political career.
		THE Moriarty Tribunal is expected to say that Charles Haughey did political favours in return for the huge sums of cash given to him by businessman Ben Dunne.
		TWO months after he died, the Moriarty tribunal has finally concluded a nine-year investigation into the finances of Charles Haughey and written to his family detailing its findings.
	www.thetribunalshow.com /news.htm (1061 words)

	BBC News \| NORTHERN IRELAND \| Former Irish PM in payments probe
		The tribunal wants Mr Haughey to explain the source of millions of pounds he appears to have received on top of the salary and expenses connected with his political role in the 1980s and early 1990s.
		An earlier 1997 tribunal inquiry uncovered evidence of donations to Haughey by businessmen, but concluded there did not appear to be any political impropriety relating to the payments.
		Tribunals are being widely used in the Irish Republic to probe corruption allegations.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/844378.stm (407 words)

	eircom net Ireland-International / Irish news headlines from leading Irish newspapers
		The Moriarty report is expected to link the support of the former taoiseach Charles Haughey for a number of passport applications in the 1980s to a payment of £50,000 he received in 1985.
		The report is expected to state that Mr Haughey failed to co-operate with the tribunal, a finding that has significant implications for the late politican's estate as it may be forced to pay Mr Haughey's legal costs as well as part of the tribunal's own costs.
		The Moriarty tribunal will publish further reports dealing with payments to the former Fine Gael minister Michael Lowry and any acts or decisions of his that may have been affected by payments.
	home.eircom.net /content/irelandcom/topstories/9480565?view=Eircomnet (753 words)

	24 Oct 06 Moriarty Tribunal / Speeches / In the Dail / Green Party - Green Party / Comhaontas Glas
		The administration costs for the Moriarty tribunal, including counsel fees, are met from the Vote of the Department of the Taoiseach.
		A number of years ago, when seven or eight tribunals were ongoing, the Minister for Finance and the Attorney General communicated with the chairs of all the tribunals about end dates, modules and all those issues.
		The end dates I have mentioned were the end of January 2007 for the Moriarty tribunal, the end of October 2007 for the Morris tribunal and the end of March 2007 for the Mahon tribunal.
	www.greenparty.ie /en/in_the_dail/speeches/24_oct_06_moriarty_tribunal (893 words)

	Dáil Éireann - Volume 505 - 27 May, 1999 - Ceisteanna–Questions. Priority Questions. - Beaumont Hospital.
		In view of the terms of reference of the Moriarty tribunal, I recently asked the Attorney General to review the relevant files to establish whether, in his view, the matter should be referred to the tribunal.
		He has now indicated that while the files reveal nothing to warrant their being sent to the tribunal, it would be prudent to send them, particularly in the light of the request from the tribunal to provide any relevant records.
		He indicated that while the files reveal nothing to warrant sending them to the tribunal, it would be prudent to send them, particularly in light of the request from the tribunal to provide any relevant records.
	www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie /D/0505/D.0505.199905270007.html (1573 words)

	Speech by The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Mr. Michael McDowell T.D for the specially recall debate ...
		One of the attractions of the tribunal process is that it is more public than the private conduct inspectors are obliged to adopt.
		We should acknowledge at this stage that if the Moriarty tribunal had taken this on as well, it would have been a tribunal of prodigious length.
		As a method of investigation, a tribunal of inquiry has many shortcomings - its proceedings must be conducted in public, save in narrow circumstances, there is no possibility of compelling people to explain themselves in private and everything is contested on a line by line basis by people who are well attended by lawyers.
	www.progressivedemocrats.ie /press_room/4 (1986 words)

	GUBU » Moriarty and Boys to go on at full rates
		Last November, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern insisted that Moriarty lawyers’ fees would be cut dramatically, from €2,500 a day to €900 a day, if the tribunal failed to finish its work by the end of June.
		The lower rates apply to all new tribunals, but ministers accepted that they would not apply to existing tribunals after Attorney General Rory Brady spoke with the heads of all of the inquiries.
		Last February, the Taoiseach said the total costs incurred by the Moriarty tribunal from 1997 to end of January 2006 was €22,587,982, including barristers’ fees and administration costs.
	www.sarahcarey.ie /2006/07/14/moriarty-and-boys-to-go-on-at-full-rates (496 words)

	moriarty tribunal - documents 1 to 50
		The fall-out from the Moriarty Tribunal and the unacceptable behaviour of the Haughey years continues to threaten the Coalition Government.
		Perhaps the most far-reaching revelation from the Moriarty tribunal so far is Charles Haughey's offer to Allied Irish Banks in October 1979 that he could secure a £10 million deposit from a Middle Eastern bank.
		It would be unfair to compare the work-in-progress of the two tribunals established by the Dáil to inquire into payments to politicians and corruption in the planning process.
	homepage.eircom.net /~seandubh/Dublin_general/moriarty_tribunal.htm (2050 words)

	News 7th June 2005 \| OneinFour.org
		With third party legal costs for completed Tribunals running at four times the amount of State legal costs, some politicians believe the eventual cost of Tribunals will be in the region of 1.2bn (most of the Tribunals have made no orders yet in relation to third party costs).
		A number of tribunals have drawn criticism for the length of their deliberations, the astronomical costs associated with them, or in relation to the inefficacy or absence of interim or final reports.
		The Lindsay Tribunal into blood donation practices and the Dunne Inquiry into organ retention (which cost 20m up to the time it was directed by Government to complete its work) have both been subject to harsh public criticism.
	www.oneinfour.org /news/news2005/costs (535 words)

	flood tribunal - documents 1 to 50
		The Flood tribunal's proposed public examination of the personal financial affairs of company director Thomas Bailey and his wife, Caroline, would expose their personal financial transactions to public scrutiny, the High Court was told yesterday.
		THE FLOOD TRIBUNAL: An independent audit of Mr James Gogarty's financial affairs did not reveal any inconsistency in the evidence given by him to the Flood inquiry, the tribunal chairman indicated yesterday.
		Outside the Flood Tribunal yesterday were, from left, Mr Colm Allen SC with his client, Mr Oliver Barry, and solicitor Mr Edmund Butler.Photograph: Pat Langan.
	homepage.eircom.net /~seandubh/Dublin_general/flood_tribunal.htm (1692 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Tribunal stress 'threatens Haughey'
		The legal team representing Mr Haughey, who is thought to be suffering from prostate cancer, told Dublin's Moriarty tribunal yesterday that doctors had told him to stop giving evidence on medical grounds.
		Mr Justice Moriarty said that if "a weight of informed professional opinion" were to establish this was the case, then he would have to consider whether Mr Haughey could finish giving his evidence "in some different venue or by some alternative, albeit less satisfactory, procedure".
		The Moriarty tribunal, set up in 1997, is yet to investigate whether any political decision might have been made by Mr Haughey when in office which might have benefited a person or company who made him a payment.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2000/10/17/whaug17.xml (348 words)

	Monday Newspaper Review - Irish Business News and International Stories
		The highest profile inquiries, the Moriarty and Flood-Mahon Tribunals dealing with payments to politicians and the Morris Tribunal dealing with Garda corruption, still have work to complete and must still make crucial decisions on awarding costs to lawyers acting for parties who co-operated with their investigations.
		Tribunals now have the power to withhold costs against any person who does not co-operate with the inquiry and the Mahon Tribunal has invoked this against several witnesses.
		But in the case of the Moriarty and Morris Tribunals, the Government has agreed to extensions of the deadline at the existing rates of pay.
	www.finfacts.com /irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_10007065.shtml (6329 words)

	AN PHOBLACHT/REPUBLICAN NEWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The judges accepted his contention that the procedures used by the Moriarty Tribunal were unfair and his rights were infringed.
		The Moriarty and Flood Tribunals were set up on the basis that the common good was being served.
		Any costs such as the financial ones would be worth it when the Tribunals published their reports.
	republican-news.org /archive/1998/July30/30cjh.html (594 words)

	The Examiner - News From Ireland - 24, April, 2000
		Mr Dunlop told the Tribunal he had paid 15 Dublin county councillors a total of £112,000 in return for their assistance with the re zoning of the Quarryvale site.
		“I will be telling the Tribunal in the most emphatic way that I never instructed or authorised anyone on my behalf to pay moneys to any politician for his or her vote,” he said.
		Mr O’Callaghan said he was making this statement because of the intense level of public and media interest in his affairs.
	ted.examiner.ie /archives/2000/april/24/current/ipage_6.htm (481 words)

	BBC NEWS \| N Ireland \| Public gripped by payments inquiry
		The Moriarty Tribunal is expected to ask Mr Haughey to explain his lavish lifestyle during his years of public service.
		The hearings were set up following the McCracken Tribunal of 1997 which found evidence of donations to Mr Haughey by businessmen, but concluded that there was no evidence of political impropriety relating to the payments.
		But a muted reaction to Mr Haughey when he arrived at the castle suggested that the Irish people are becoming somewhat inured to the three current tribunals and some 16 inquiries which are principally dealing with claims of corruption.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/854651.stm (554 words)

	Miriam Lord says it much better than I could - boards.ie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Secure in his belief that his bumptious bluster will go unchallenged, the deputy for Galway East informs the nation “it is a well-known fact that a certain individual in the tribunal is constantly leaking information to the media for political purposes”.
		The tribunal calls his bluff and summons him to the witness box to stand up his claim.
		“Have you been contacted by the Moriarty tribunal?” he asked him, referring to comments he has made outside the House about the inquiry, its imminent reports, and who in Leinster House would be embarrassed as a result.
	www.boards.ie /vbulletin/showthread.php?p=52305173#post52305173 (795 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		The Moriarty Tribunal, which is investigating both his finances and those of Michael Lowry, former Fine Gael minister, was established after Mr Haughey admitted that he had received more then IR£1 million from Ben Dunne, the businessman.
		The tribunal has yet to establish whether a political decision by either man had benefited an individual or company making a payment.
		Earlier this year, Liam Lawlor, a sitting MP, was jailed for a week for failing to make a full disclosure of his financial records to the Flood Tribunal which is investigating alleged corruption in the planning process in the Dublin area.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/05/30/wshat30.xml (418 words)

	Moriarty Tribunal at Public Inquiry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Accounts within the secret deposits coded S8 and S9 belonged to Mr Haughey and were frozen along with the rest of the deposits when they were discovered.
		Perhaps most interest, RTE TV news failed to report on the Moriarty Tribunal, it features no where in their archives.
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	www.publicinquiry.eu /category/moriarty-tribunal (501 words)

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