The Oireachtas has sunk to yet another low

Revelations that FG Deputy Michelle Mulherin confirmed she made mobile phone calls to Kenya between 2011 and 2013 at a cost of €2,000 but is prepared to repay the cost to the taxpayer, renders her claim, that the calls were not of a personal nature, ridiculous.
If these calls were part of her parliamentary duties, as she claims, why would she offer to repay the cost to the State?