Jo Haylen, the transport minister for the Australian state of New South Wales, has apologized after using her ministerial driver to chauffeur her and some friends to and from a three-hour private lunch on the Australia Day weekend—at a cost of $750, reports The Guardian.

“I made the wrong decision,” Haylen said on Sunday when apologizing and confirming she would repay the money for the 13-hour, 446km trip to the Hunter Valley.

Asked why she didn’t just book an Uber, the minister told reporters: “In retrospect, I should have.”

The logbook shows on 25 January the trip started at 8am and ended at 8.50pm and was coded as a “business trip during working day.”

The ministerial car reportedly drove from Sydney to pick up Haylen at her holiday house at Caves Beach—almost 100km north of the city. She and five others, including close friend and fellow minister Rose Jackson, were then ferried to the restaurant at Brokenwood Wines in Pokolbin.

The car later took them back to Caves Beach before the driver returned to Sydney.

Ministerial cars and drivers can be used for private purposes under the rules in New South Wales rules.

But Haylen rejected the opposition’s call for her to resign.

The Coalition had called for Haylen and Jackson to resign or for the premier, Chris Minns, to sack them.

And Minns said using a chauffeur for a private lunch was “clearly unacceptable.”