The trial, which is set to last until the end of July, has been in legal argument in the absence of the jury since Wednesday.

Jurors were informed Friday by phone that they will now not be required until Tuesday when the current round of legal argument is finished.

Judge Patrick McCartan previously told jurors that the argument concerns the facts of the case and that they were being excused to avoid “infecting” them with material and information that does not constitute evidence.

Three former officials are accused of being involved in archiving and hiding off-shore accounts connected to Mr FitzPatrick which may have had Deposit Interest Retention Tax (DIRT) owed on them.

Former company secretary, Bernard Daly (65) of Collins Avenue West, Whitehall, Dublin, former Chief Operations Officer Tiarnan O'Mahoney (54) of Glen Pines, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow and Aoife Maguire (60) of Rothe Abbey, South Circular Road, Kilmainham, Dublin have pleaded not guilty to seven alleged offences committed in 2003 and 2004.

The three are accused of trying to delete references to two accounts in the name of John Peter O'Toole, Mr FitzPatrick's brother-in-law, from Anglo's Core Banking System (CBS).

Mr Daly and Mr O'Mahoney also deny omitting the name of Mr O'Toole from a list provided to the Revenue Commissioners of people who held non-resident accounts worth more than €100,000 in 1995.

Mr O'Mahoney and Ms Maguire further deny attempting to delete six other accounts, connected to Mr FitzPatrick, from the CBS.