Companies whose director paid people to hang posters for Paschal Donohoe received Government payments worth €8.7million.
The Public Expenditure Minister has confirmed businessman Michael Stone paid six individuals to put up and take down posters of the Fine Gael candidate during the 2016 General Election campaign. The €1,057 cost of this was not declared after the election and is the subject of a complaint by the Standards in Public Office Commission, reports the Irish Mirror.
It has now emerged two companies of which Mr Stone was a director received at least 141 payments over six years – including for work in Leinster House. Minister Donohoe insisted last night he had no role in the awarding of such contracts.
