FORMER TD IVOR Callely has made a €172,937 settlement after being named in Revenue’s list of tax defaulters for under-declaring VAT.

Callely (66) of Howth Road, Killester, Dublin 3, served as a Fianna Fáil TD in Dublin North-Central from from 1989 to 2007, and then as a Senator from 2007 to 2011.

The recently-published list by Revenue shows that he owes €111,478 in unpaid tax. He must now also pay €28,115 in interest. He’s listed in the defaulters list as a motor vehicle dealer.

Revenue applied a penalty of €33,344, bringing the total to €172,937.

In 2018, Callely was given an eight-month suspended sentence for ransacking a GPs office.

He pleaded guilty to one harassment charge and seven counts of criminal damage on seven dates in May and June 2017.

Cameras filmed him breaking a saddle board, pouring rubbish, scattering dirt over the floor and on reading material in the doctor’s waiting room, and smearing the wall with teabags and dust.

The offences happened during offices hours and while the doctor was seeing patients in his surgery, the court was told.

Callely was previously sentenced to five months in prison for making false expenses claims during his time as a senator.

He was convicted of submitting expenses claims in 2007 for receipts dated 2002 and 2006 from a company that had ceased trading in 1994.

Using six invoices, Callely fraudulently claimed €4,207.45.