Call for probe into €50k ink cartridge bill affair

A top-level probe into how a Sinn Féin TD managed to leave taxpayers with a €50,000 bill for ink cartridges in two years was demanded last night.

Dublin’s Aengus Ó Snodaigh claimed the Leinster House supplies — enough to produce more than 3.2 million pages — were used legitimately, but even his party’s deputy leader, Mary Lou McDonald, described the cost as “excessive”.

Fianna Fáil’s Micheál Martin demanded a probe into the affair, insisting the public had a right to know how so many printer cartridges were used and what they was used for.