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.

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

Ex Rehab boss and Fine Gael adviser, Frank Flannery, has received €409,000 from the charity since leaving in 2006 — almost all of which was signed off by Angela Kerins and not the group’s finance director.

THE image of Frank Flannery stalking the corridors of Leinster House wandering in and out of ministers’ offices, having a word in their ear, is one that in many ways defines the problem of lobbying in Irish society.

Laws establishing a register of all professional lobbyists and proper records of all meetings with ministers will be published in the next two months, Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore told the Dáil.

In a deftly effective plunge of the political blade, veteran Labour Minister Ruairi Quinn avoided going for the kill, but left Fine Gael’s chief strategist Frank Flannery badly wounded and haemorrhaging credibility.

Labour has stepped-up pressure on senior Fine Gael adviser Frank Flannery to tell all to the Public Accounts Committee after his role trying to influence Government policy drew opposition fire.

The Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has said he would "encourage" Frank Flannery to attend a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee for questioning about Rehab.

Ex-Rehab CEO and long-time Fine Gael adviser Frank Flannery ignored calls to appear before the Dáil’s public accounts committee last Thursday because he was having lunch with a senior Government minister.

The Taoiseach has said Fine Gael strategist Frank Flannery should appear before the Public Accounts Committee to answer questions about his pension payments from Rehab.