Bank of Ireland has been ordered to pay €40,000 from teacher Enoch Burke's bank account into a Courts Service account within seven days.
The money is to be paid as part-payment of fines of almost €80,000 he owes for contempt of court.
The High Court this morning made a 'conditional' order it imposed on his bank account last week into an 'absolute' order and ruled the bank must make the payment within a week.
It also granted a discovery order sought by lawyers for the Attorney General directing the bank to provide further details of activity on Mr Burke's account.
Mr Burke owes €79,100 in fines imposed for contempt of court after he continued to turn up at Wilson's Hospital School in Westmeath following his suspension and dismissal, in breach of court orders.
He has also spent more than 500 days in jail for breaching the injunctions.
He is appealing his dismissal. The appeal has not yet been heard pending the outcome of other proceedings taken by Mr Burke in the Court of Appeal.
Mr Justice David Nolan granted the conditional garnishee order against Mr Burke's bank account last week.
The hearing was to allow Mr Burke to show why the order should not be made absolute. The judge ruled against Mr Burke after telling him he had not offered him any reason why he should not make the order absolute.
The court also granted the order sought by Senior Counsel, Brian Kennedy, on behalf of the Attorney General seeking discovery against Bank of Ireland.
Mr Kennedy said this was to show if Mr Burke had any other bank accounts, or if there had been any dissipation of assets or removal of assets since the court imposed the fines.
Mr Kennedy said a receiver had been appointed to Mr Burke's Department of Education salary and details from the bank might show if the receiver's remit needed to be broadened.
The judge made his ruling while Mr Burke loudly continued to try to make his submissions.
Mr Burke had begun making submissions about the reasons he had been suspended from Wilson's hospital school in 2022.
He said his belief in male and female was a religious belief which was protected by the Constitution.
The judge told Mr Burke "we had moved on from that", and the court was not a soapbox.
After giving him some time to make his submissions, he told Mr Burke he had run out of patience with him and was going to make his order on a proportional and reasonable basis.
He said the court must uphold compliance with court orders.
Mr Burke continued to speak loudly as the judge gave his ruling, telling the judge to "just grow up a little bit."
At one point another man in the court held up a crest, and repeatedly asked loudly to be allowed to make a submission.
The court heard Mr Burke has €40,000 in his bank account and the law allows a garnishee order to be made against a bank account in credit.
He told the judge he had "seized" his salary and frozen his account.
The judge said Mr Burke knew exactly why had done that.
He said he had let Mr Burke out of jail last December and imposed a fine on him and the money in his bank account was now going to pay the monies he should have paid because of fines imposed in the past.
The judge left the bench as Mr Burke continued to speak. The case will be back in court in a fortnight.
