Mr Ahern said that between the time he was lord mayor in 1986 and 1993 he saved over £50,000. This was a small amount in his view. "Anyone doing an SSIA for the last five years would have saved half that amount, so I think for a person holding ministerial office it wasn't a lot."
"To be able to say in April 2007, what I was lodging on 11th October, 1994, is something that is impossible . . . I was just giving you the best estimate.
I don't understand how it was that I moved on to the J2 list and how I had a category on that list, all matters involving Bertie Ahern directly or indirectly. That is a catch all, it was everything from cradle to grave, I don't know why I was in that category.
Well, would I consider these people, if not good friends, friends. I mean I have been in their box in Manchester United, I have been in some of their boxes in Manchester United a number of times over the years, even though I tend not to watch matches in boxes, we might gather in the box beforehand, but they are business people.
If I thought getting £8,000 in Manchester in the 1994/95 season would have caused me all the grief it has caused me, I would have given it back.
If I ever thought I was going to be sitting here there's a whole lot of ... ... things I wouldn't have done, not that they were right or wrong, just that it would be easier not to."