Ó Snódaigh was alerted to high printing bill in 2006

Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snódaigh was contacted by Oireachtas authorities in May 2006 about his excessive claims for printer cartridges, but still claimed over €50,000 worth of ink in the following two years.

When controversy arose over his ink bill in February, the Dublin South Central TD insisted the problem was never brought to his attention.

“Nobody ever raised it with me in Leinster House, the cost of it or that it was excessive or anything else,” he told RTÉ’s Morning Ireland on Feb 28.