Editing Garret FitzGerald (section)

== Finances ==
In early 1999, it emerged that some six years earlier, [[Allied Irish Banks]] (AIB) and [[Ansbacher Bank]]s wrote off debts of almost [[IR£]]{{nnbsp}}200,000 owed by FitzGerald, following the collapse of the aircraft leasing company, [[Guinness Peat Aviation]] (GPA), in which he was a shareholder.<ref>{{cite news |title=AIB and Ansbacher wrote off Fitzgerald's £200,000 debt |url=http://www.rte.ie/news/1999/0217/fitzgerald.html |access-date=6 May 2020 |publisher=RTÉ News |date=17 February 1999 |archive-date=20 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020020001/http://www.rte.ie/news/1999/0217/fitzgerald.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The chairman of AIB at the time, [[Peter Sutherland]], was also a former director of GPA and had served as [[Attorney General of Ireland|Attorney General]] under FitzGerald, prior to FitzGerald appointing him as Ireland's member of the [[European Commission]]. The [[Moriarty Tribunal]] investigated this matter,<ref name=Moriarty /> and compared the treatment by AIB of FitzGerald with their treatment of Charles Haughey.{{efn|It was commented that "FitzGerald's case involved the effective exhaustion of his assets{{nbsp}}... to achieve a settlement" and that, in contrast, "Haughey's assets were retained virtually intact".<ref>{{harvp|Moriarty Tribunal|2006|p={{pli |1=https://moriarty-tribunal.ie/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/SITECONTENT_26.pdf#page78 |2=52}} ({{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731220926/https://moriarty-tribunal.ie/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/SITECONTENT_26.pdf#page78 |date=31 July 2020}}{{cbignore}})|loc=§&nbsp;3-66}}: <q>As in Mr. Haughey's case, there was a substantial discounting or forbearance shown in Dr. Fitzgerald's case. However, in contrast with Mr. Haughey's case, Dr. Fitzgerald's case involved the effective exhaustion of his assets in order to achieve a settlement whereas Mr. Haughey's assets were retained virtually intact.</q></ref>}} They found evidence that he had worked to compromise his indebtedness with AIB and no evidence of any wrongdoing.{{efn|Indeed, the Tribunal heard evidence as to the hardship that FitzGerald went to{{snd}}to the extent of selling off his family home{{snd}}to repay the debt to his utmost ability.<ref>{{harvp|Moriarty Tribunal|2006|p={{pli |1=https://moriarty-tribunal.ie/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/SITECONTENT_26.pdf#page78 |2=52}} ({{webarchive |nolink=1 |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731220926/https://moriarty-tribunal.ie/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/SITECONTENT_26.pdf#page78 |date=31 July 2020}}{{cbignore}})|loc=§&nbsp;3-66}}: <q> In summary, it would appear that in compromising his indebtedness with the Bank, Dr. Fitzgerald disposed of his only substantial asset, namely, his family home at Palmerston Road, a property which would now be worth a considerable sum of money.</q></ref>}}