Healy-Rae 'to pay phone calls money'

Kerry South TD Michael Healy-Rae has indicated that he intends to pay back some €2,600 in costs incurred by the taxpayer as a result of calls to premium rate phone lines from Leinster House.

This lunchtime Ceann Comhairle Sean Barrett in a statement welcomed the fact that Deputy Healy-Rae "had committed to paying €2,600 in relation to costs incurred" by the telephone calls.