diff --git a/src/main/java/org/eclipsefoundation/git/eca/api/GithubAPI.java b/src/main/java/org/eclipsefoundation/git/eca/api/GithubAPI.java
index 418bc63185b1562ead820bef5d8dfe932b86e213..90c4552dfe7a8b98045f917aac04fdd7a9b3b271 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/eclipsefoundation/git/eca/api/GithubAPI.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/eclipsefoundation/git/eca/api/GithubAPI.java
@@ -167,36 +167,4 @@ public interface GithubAPI {
     @Path("installation/repositories")
     public Response getInstallationRepositories(@BeanParam BaseAPIParameters params, @HeaderParam(HttpHeaders.AUTHORIZATION) String bearer);
 
-    /**
-     * Recursively fetches all comments from a pull request by handling pagination manually.
-     *
-     * @param bearer GitHub bearer token
-     * @param apiVersion GitHub API version
-     * @param org organization name
-     * @param repo repository name
-     * @param prNumber pull request number
-     * @return List of all comments from the pull request
-     */
-    default List<GithubPullRequestComment> getAllPullRequestComments(String bearer, String apiVersion, String org, String repo,
-            int prNumber) {
-        List<GithubPullRequestComment> allComments = new ArrayList<>();
-        int page = 1;
-        int perPage = 100; // GitHub's maximum items per page
-
-        // Given that there's no pagination in the response, we need to query until we get an empty response, that would mean that we've
-        // reached the end
-        while (true) {
-            RestResponse<List<GithubPullRequestComment>> response = getComments(bearer, apiVersion, org, repo, prNumber, perPage, page);
-
-            List<GithubPullRequestComment> comments = response.getEntity();
-            if (Objects.isNull(comments) || comments.isEmpty()) {
-                break;
-            }
-
-            allComments.addAll(comments);
-            page++;
-        }
-
-        return allComments;
-    }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/eclipsefoundation/git/eca/helper/GithubHelper.java b/src/main/java/org/eclipsefoundation/git/eca/helper/GithubHelper.java
index 073032ed9e4e2e42e889f618debb05959f8ec73f..66dc3dc720dc52048c31c385b31718245809df7e 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/eclipsefoundation/git/eca/helper/GithubHelper.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/eclipsefoundation/git/eca/helper/GithubHelper.java
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ import org.eclipsefoundation.persistence.model.RDBMSQuery;
 import org.eclipsefoundation.persistence.service.FilterService;
 import org.eclipsefoundation.utils.helper.DateTimeHelper;
 import org.eclipsefoundation.utils.helper.TransformationHelper;
+import org.jboss.resteasy.reactive.RestResponse;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 import io.quarkus.qute.Location;
@@ -481,6 +482,40 @@ public class GithubHelper {
                                 .build());
     }
 
+
+    /**
+     * Recursively fetches all comments from a pull request by handling pagination manually.
+     *
+     * @param bearer GitHub bearer token
+     * @param apiVersion GitHub API version
+     * @param org organization name
+     * @param repo repository name
+     * @param prNumber pull request number
+     * @return List of all comments from the pull request
+     */
+    private List<GithubPullRequestComment> getAllPullRequestComments(String bearer, String apiVersion, String org, String repo,
+            int prNumber) {
+        List<GithubPullRequestComment> allComments = new ArrayList<>();
+        int page = 1;
+        int perPage = 100; // GitHub's maximum items per page
+
+        // Given that there's no pagination in the response, we need to query until we get an empty response, that would mean that we've
+        // reached the end
+        while (true) {
+            RestResponse<List<GithubPullRequestComment>> response = ghApi.getComments(bearer, apiVersion, org, repo, prNumber, perPage, page);
+
+            List<GithubPullRequestComment> comments = response.getEntity();
+            if (Objects.isNull(comments) || comments.isEmpty()) {
+                break;
+            }
+
+            allComments.addAll(comments);
+            page++;
+        }
+
+        return allComments;
+    }
+
     /**
      * This method posts a comment to the pull request detailing the validation errors and mentioning the usernames that need to take
      * action.
@@ -503,8 +538,7 @@ public class GithubHelper {
         Integer pullRequestNumber = request.getPullRequest().getNumber();
 
         // Get existing comments using pagination
-        List<GithubPullRequestComment> comments = ghApi
-                .getAllPullRequestComments(ghBearerString, apiVersion, login, repositoryName, pullRequestNumber);
+        List<GithubPullRequestComment> comments = getAllPullRequestComments(ghBearerString, apiVersion, login, repositoryName, pullRequestNumber);
 
         Set<String> nonMentionedUsers = usernames
                 .stream()