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Wed 11 Nov 2002An Investigation Needing Quick EndThe Minister for Transport, Mr Brennan, has been identified as the politician at the centre of allegations that a minister did not pay Aer Rianta for €5,000 worth of drink and cigars in the early 1990s.The extraordinary allegation, that could finish any minister's political career, appeared in the Sunday Independent. The report said an unnamed minister had not only used his Office to supply his friends and constituents with gift-wrapped Christmas presents from Aer Rianta, but had then refused to pay for them.