Scott O'Donnell was appointed to the KiwiRail board with a plan to manage 10 conflicts of interest.
Former KiwiRail director Scott O'Donnell was paid $44,630 for a short-lived stint on the board, in which he missed more than a third of meeting agenda items.
KiwiRail produced the figures after an Official Information Act request by RNZ.
It was previously reported O'Donnell had missed 15 agenda items due to conflicts of interest and a further 19 for other reasons, but KiwiRail had not been able to say what he was paid, nor how many agenda items he was present for.
In response to the new disclosures, a governance expert said it appeared O'Donnell would at times have been "in and out of the bloody meeting like a yo-yo". Minister for Rail Winston Peters was critical of RNZ's reporting, saying O'Donnell had participated in more than 83 percent of all agenda items and followed standard conflict management processes.
