Much of the spending took place as part of an ongoing recruitment drive to bring the number of police officers in the State to at least 15,000

The former taoiseach is due to take up the advisory role next month

Accounts recently filed to the Companies Office for An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha (CLRG) show that its finances were sent reeling further by the alleged ‘feis-fixing’ scandal in 2023.