Something has to change.

The Supreme Court judgment in the Angela Kerins case could lead to a serious restriction on the scope of Oireachtas committees, a top legal expert has warned.

Things are said in the Oireachtas that should not be said, or people would prefer were not said, but that is “the nature of parliamentary privilege” approved by the people in the Constitution, the State has told the Supreme Court.

Former Rehab CEO Angela Kerins was “blaggarded” by members of the Dail Public Accounts Committee in a way that “changed her life forever”, the Supreme Court has been told.

Former Rehab CEO Angela Kerins’ case over her treatment by the Dail Public Accounts Committee is of “singular importance” for all citizens and the State and the outcome will “have resonance for years”, the Supreme Court has been told.

Former Rehab CEO Angela Kerins will take a Supreme Court appeal today in what is described as an "unprecedented challenge" to parliamentary speech.

The Supreme Court has allocated a date next March to hear former Rehab CEO Anglea Kerins’ appeal against the rejection of her damages case over the Dail Public Accounts Committee’s conduct of hearings concerning public monies paid to the Rehab group.

Angela Kerins has been awarded two thirds of legal costs incurred during her case against members of the 2014 Public Accounts Committee.

Angela Kerins will find out today if she will have to pay the full legal bill for her failed action against the Public Accounts Committee.

Ex-Rehab boss Angela Kerins said she is “very disappointed” by her High Court defeat in her case against members of the Public Accounts Committee.

Angela Kerins will find out later this morning if she has won her legal action against the 2014 Public Accounts Committee.

The barrister representing the PAC members who questioned Angela Kerins in February 2014 has insisted they did have the power to ask about her salary.

Angela Kerins’ legal action against the Public Accounts Committee is due to resume before the High Court this morning.

The members of the 2014 Public Accounts Committee are refusing to accept responsibility for the difficulties experienced by Angela Kerins.

The former CEO of the Rehab Group has claimed some members of PAC chose to ignore legal advice relating to its powers as the public spending watchdog..

The High Court has heard that former CEO of the Rehab Group Angela Kerins self-harmed 15 days after appearing before an Oireachtas Committee.

A High Court action brought by the former CEO of the Rehab Group against the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee is due to get underway today.

Former Rehab CEO Angela Kerins is entitled to certain documents used by the Dáil Public Accounts Committee (PAC) relating to its investigation of the funding of the organisation, the High Court has ruled.

The Public Accounts Committee has been ordered to hand over documents to former Rehab boss Angela Kerins as part of her case that the spending watchdog conducted a "witchhunt" against her.

Around €140,000 a year will be paid to the next chief executive of the Rehab Group, a consultant who is reviewing the controversial charity has revealed.

A private row between two of the Dáil’s most high-profile committees over who has the right to examine the health and charities top-ups crisis has spilled over into the public arena.

Ousted Rehab bosses Angela Kerins and Frank Flannery are almost certain to be forced to attend a public grilling to clarify still-unanswered questions about the charity’s finances before the Dáil’s summer break.

Former Rehab chiefs executive Frank Flannery and Angela Kerins have thrown down the gauntlet to the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee after accusing members of "a gross abuse" of their position and knowingly acting outside the law — warning there will be "grave consequences" if the inquiry continues.

The head of the public accounts committee has offered to meet ex-Rehab chief executive, Frank Flannery, in private in a bid to convince him to willingly submit to a public grilling by the cross-party group.

Former Rehab director Frank Flannery billed the charity for lobbying Government departments as well as business trips, the group has confirmed.

As a showdown edges closer between Rehab’s former bosses and the Dáil’s spending watchdog, the charity has revealed fees paid for lobbying and trips, but questions still remain unanswered.

Former Rehab bosses Frank Flannery and Angela Kerins have been warned they may be compelled to co-operate with the Public Accounts Committee as its trawl widens into the charity’s use of public funds.

Former Rehab bosses Frank Flannery and Angela Kerins have been given two weeks to provide details of their pension arrangements and other information on management of the disability charity to the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee before it uses powers to compel them to come before a public grilling.

John McGuinness, the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, has insisted three issues central to the ongoing Rehab investigation can only be answered by the charity’s two former bosses.

There will be “no moving on” from the crisis engulfing the charity sector unless two former bosses of Rehab come forward and “explain themselves”, according to the chairman of the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) John McGuinness.

Though she wasn’t present at the PAC meeting yesterday, Angela Kerins and her extortionate pay packet loomed large as committee members took aim, writes Political Editor Mary Regan

The former Rehab chief executive Angela Kerins will not be attending tomorrow's meeting of the Public Accounts Committee.

Angela Kerins' solicitors tell the committee that she will NOT be attending the PAC tomorrow, citing ill-health.

Rehab has said it cannot force its former chief executive, Angela Kerins, to appear before next week’s meeting of the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee because she no longer works for the charity, as of today.

Angela Kerins has confirmed her resignation as chief executive of the Rehab Group in the wake of controversy over salary levels paid to senior management at the under-fire charity.

Rehab Group chief executive Angela Kerins "is expected to resign" in the wake of controversy over salary levels paid to senior management at the under-fire charity, it has been reported.

Rehab and its external PR adviser are to sue the author of a damning letter to the Dáil Public Accounts Committee over claims they are involved in potential “criminal wrongdoing” at the crisis-hit charity.

Salaries amounting to more than €100,000 were paid to 12 senior staff members at the Rehab Group last year, with many also given generous perks including company cars and bonuses of up to €14,000.

Disability group Rehab will hand over “a full” record of its top executives’ salaries before the Dáil public accounts committee’s latest meeting on Thursday.

Rehab boss Angela Kerins has been given a week to answer a list of questions, including the salaries of senior executives at the charity, to the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) after claims her evidence before it last week was incomplete.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has called on Rehab to reveal the salaries of its executives and for one of his party’s chief advisers to co-operate with an Oireachtas committee’s examination of the charity.

Rehab officials who dodged Thursday’s Dáil grilling are set to be hauled in to explain their no-show — with the group told its €83m-a-year State funding could be slashed if they fail to reveal all pay levels.

Rehab’s chief executive has insisted there is nothing untoward about the involvement of close family members in a coffin importation firm which was directly linked to the charity.

Disability charity boss Angela Kerins is entitled to a 35% salary bonus every year worth over €84,000 — and has claimed her pay packet should be 20% higher than its current €240,000 rate.