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Fri 05 May 2007Q&AEdited extracts of the exchange between journalist Vincent Browne and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern .Vincent Browne:My first question has nothing to do with the planning tribunal. When you were making full disclosure of your financial dealings last September, in your interview with Bryan Dobson on RTÉ and in your subsequent Dáil statements, why did you not disclose then that you received £30,000 in sterling in cash from Michael Wall in your office in St Luke's on the 2nd of December 1994, that was three days before you were expected to be elected taoiseach for the first time? Nothing to do with the tribunal?