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1 your ICS the account to your joint domestic account in circumstances in which
2 your annual running costs for running your constituency were 12,450?
3 A I accept that but in the context of an election, I may have used expenditure in
4 the Senate campaign, I would respond to the banks on the basis of when need be,
5 I would respond to a bank situation.
6 Q 269Are you saying that that, in fact, is what happened? That those lodgments from
7 your ICS account to your Bank of Ireland joint account were made as a result of
8 a request from the bank?
9 A No, not necessarily, I would know like, any monthly statement you would
10 certainly know and in the view of paying my accounts for the constituency out
11 of my own personal accounts. There was no other account there to pay out it
12 out, they were paid either out of my own personal account or out of the joint
13 account.
14 Q 270Is the position therefore in running your accounts and keeping your
15 constituency office, you will undoubtedly have available to you all the back up
16 records that show where you obtained the figures that are entitled
17 "Constituency Office Operation Costings"?
18 A I certainly would from 1997.
19 Q 271Do you have them from 1993?
20 A No, I have not.
21 Q 272Insofar as you have prepared this document and you say it relates to 1993, are
22 they based upon your best mental estimate as to what it would have cost and do
23 you have any documentation of any kind in relation to --
24 A No, the best estimate is the --
25 Q 273This is the figure that has come out of your head, Mr. Wright?
26 A To a certain extent I would be able to stand over.
27 Q 274Which figures would you stand over?
28 A We talk about promotion there. On an annual basis you could spend at least
29 what I have there and more, depending, and in the year we are talking about, in
30 1993, it had been a Senate election, I would have probably even more printing