Callely unlikely to be pursued for €6,000 in overpaid mileage expenses

Former minister Ivor Callely is unlikely to be pursued further for nearly €6,000 in overpaid mileage expenses that he received and which department officials have been chasing for two years.

The ex-Fianna Fáil TD has, so far, refused to pay back the amounts which relate to expenses that he claimed over the top for and along with other refunds that he claimed twice for several years ago.

The mistaken payments were only discovered in 2010 but Mr Callely has not returned the amounts involved over the last two years, despite repeated requests. The mileage expenses were claimed by him in 2004 and 2005 when he was a junior minister at the department of transport.