That is despite the house sitting just once in December

Fine Gael TD Alan Farrell wrote to the Oireachtas Commission, the group that oversees the workings of Leinster House, saying the “eye-watering difference” was “inherently unfair at best and scandalous at worst”.

The Labour leader explained the submission of the ineligible expense was a 'technical mistake', adding she was 'more than happy' to refund the amoung in question