Callely gets two-week deadline to explain expenses issue

IVOR CALLELY faces a public grilling over the latest expenses controversy after a Seanad watchdog last night launched an investigation into his alleged use of fake receipts to claim up to €3,000.

Callely gets two-week deadline to explain expenses issue

Mr Callely and three other senators have been given two weeks to explain issues surrounding expenses to the Seanad Committee on Members’ Interests, which last night demanded “detailed statements” by 10am on August 23.

The committee met for more than five hours yesterday and decided not to take what they called “the major step” of referring complaints against Mr Callely to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

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