Jim Higgins (Fine Gael)

The changed terms of reference will have to be clear, specific and comprehensive. They must enable the tribunal to investigate all policy decisions by Mr Burke when he was Minister for Justice, Communications, Industry and Commerce and Energy between 1987 and 1992 in order to ascertain whether decisions taken by Mr Burke or Governments of which he was member could have been influenced in any way by payments he or the Fianna Fáil party received in that period.

Vitali Vitaliev found Thursday's presidential inauguration of Mary McAleese a mixture of a church liturgy, a chamber music concert and a country wedding.