The ex-taoiseach, ex-IDA CEO and ex-junior enterprise minister were among those taking credit for almost 90 bogus jobs purportedly created by a now-scrapped government initiative that ended in controversy.

Leo Varadkar has a choice to make by Wednesday.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar assured SIPO that he had internal procedures in place to avoid political donations over the legal threshold – despite previously accepting at least two such payments.

SIPO is investigating electronic payments to Leo Varadkar and his explanation as to why he hasn’t declared them in his annual declaration of donations.

SIPO has opened an inquiry into undeclared donations received by taoiseach Leo Varadkar after it emerged he misled the commission during a 2019 probe.