Healy-Rae: 'I am paying other people's phone bills'

Kerry South TD Michael Healy-Rae said he is "the only person in Ireland that’s paying for other people’s phone bills" as he announced today that he intends to pay back €2,600 in costs incurred by the taxpayer as a result of calls to premium rate phone lines from Leinster House.

This lunchtime Mr Healy-Rae stressed he did not owe the Houses of the Oireachtas anything, insisting he made no phone calls.