HALIFAX - The Speaker of the Nova Scotia legislature says his office is in the process of notifying members how much they owe taxpayers for inappropriate and duplicate expenditures.
Charlie Parker says letters will be going out either later today or on Wednesday to eight members identified in the recent auditor general's report as having spent constituency allowance money inappropriately.
A further 28 members will receive letters by the end of the week verifying details on money owed for duplicate payments they received.
Parker says the letters will either verify that a member has already paid up or will request that they do so.
He says that he knows of no instances so far where a member has objected to paying back any sum owed.
He says he expects that all of the money owed will be collected by his office.
