FF leader calls for inquiry into O'Snodaigh's use of printer ink
The Sinn Féin TD Aengus O'Snódaigh has said he will cooperate with any investigation into his use of more than €50,000 worth of printer ink from the Dáil.
The Fianna Fáil leader Micháel Martin called for an inquiry into the matter after it was revealed that Mr O'Snódaigh had taken 434 printer cartridges over a two-year period.
Mr O'Snódaigh said he has nothing to apologise for, and if there is an inquiry he has nothing to hide.
He said: "When you see it in that type of figures, it look excessive, but in those years I would have produced quite a vast amount of literature in the constituency informing people of a wide range of material.
"At that stage I would have had the constituency office open 49 weeks of the year, producing literature and material."
"It was meant for houses - the Oireachtas gave us industrial printers and that's the way they presented it, I made full use of it."
He claimed that is what reflected in the cartridge uses.
"Since then, I have totally reduced that and I concentrate more on photocopying.
"Also the change in Irish society where people use Facebook and Twitter and the likes of that to get information out quite quickly."
