Flood report: George Redmond regularly received big sums of money from property developers for 28 years, the planning tribunal found.
A man whose diary was littered with tots of his assets at any particular time, Redmond was at all times intent on keeping secret the fact that he was receiving these payments.
The report said: "The tribunal believes that only a limited number of persons were aware of the fact that Mr Redmond was receiving substantial sums of money from builders and developers, most of whom were contributors to him."
Even as the tribunal increased pressure on Redmond, he sought to hinder and obstruct its work by falsely denying the receipt of some monies, falsely alleging to have received other sums, and failing to give truthful accounts of services he performed for the property developer Mr Joseph Murphy jnr and the builder Mr Michael Bailey.
The money that flowed into Redmond's accounts was in far greater sums than those outlined in the 25-year salary review annexed with the report by Mr Justice Flood. Redmond's legitimate annual after-tax earnings were £19,380 when he retired, it said.
Despite that, he had cash deposits of more than £350,000 when he retired in 1989 as assistant city and county manager with Dublin County Council. He kept £194,000 of his fortune offshore in the Isle of Man. According to a separate schedule annexed with the report, Redmond's assets in 1996 were estimated at £1.05 million.
The tribunal found that the increase in Redmond's assets "cannot be explained as being the proceeds of savings from Mr Redmond's salary or the interest earned on savings".
He acknowledged that the monies he received were paid by property-owners, builders and developers in Dublin to whom he gave advice. He said such advice ranged from financial matters to information on property trends.
But while Redmond denied that any of the advice he gave damaged the legitimate interests of Dublin County Council, the tribunal found that four payments he received in 1988 and 1989 were corrupt. In relation to help he gave to Mr Joseph Murphy to reduce the service charges and levies on land at Forrest Lands in Swords, the tribunal said he received a payment "in circumstances which amounted to an inducement to Mr Redmond to act unfaithfully and in circumstances which were detrimental to his duties".
The tribunal's third interim report describes Redmond as a man who was "intimately familiar with the state of his finances at all times".
Before opening accounts in the Isle of Man, he operated a number of bank accounts in Ireland using various forms of his name, in both its English and Irish language versions. He never lived at the addresses in Ireland, England and Spain which were used for these accounts.
Having commenced employment as a clerk in Dublin Corporation in 1941, Redmond spent his entire working life in the Dublin local authorities.
By the early 1960s, the sums he was lodging into his accounts "were the equivalent of receiving one substantial house per annum free".
