Former PAC chairman John McGuinness has said he witnessed garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe getting "destroyed" year after and year and found it difficult to repeat allegations against him.

TD John McGuinness has claimed that the former garda commissioner told him in Leinster House that Sergeant Maurice McCabe “fiddled” with children and garda whistleblowers were “fucking headbangers”.

Did a garda commissioner maliciously describe one of his officers as a kiddie fiddler?

Fianna Fáil TD John McGuinness kept notes of a conversation with former Garda commissioner Martin Callinan in which he allegedly claimed a garda whistleblower had sexually abused his children and could not be trusted.

The former Garda Commissioner twice referred to Maurice McCabe as a kiddie-fiddler and a child abuser, the Disclosures Tribunal has heard.

The former head of the Public Accounts Committee will give evidence today at the Disclosures Tribunal on the treatment of Garda whistleblowers.

The final bill for the tracker mortgage scandal could top €1bn and affect up to 40,000 customers, according to an advocate who has fought the banks for the last eight years.

The numbers involved in the tracker mortgage scandal will rise further and the banks must “now come clean” as to its full extent, says John McGuinness, chairman of the Oireachtas Finance Committee.

A TD who played a key role in uncovering the Grace foster home abuse scandal has said the people responsible must be named because “the day you blame a system and walk away from it is over in Ireland”.

There are concerns that a judge-led inquiry into allegations of bullying and intimidation within the Gardaí will not go far enough.

Sinn Féin has wound up pressure on justice chiefs to explain why a former Garda commissioner secretly met the head of a parliamentary watchdog over whistle-blower Sergeant Maurice McCabe.

A current and former Garda commissioner have been called on to clarify what stories were spread about whistle-blower Sergeant Maurice McCabe.

Former Garda commissioner Martin Callinan met the then Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman John McGuinness in secret in 2014 to say that Sergeant Maurice McCabe was “not to be trusted” writes Michael Clifford and Daniel McConnell.

Members of the Public Accounts Committee will try to get to the bottom of where the Eircode system went wrong today.

Fianna Fáil is confident of winning a seat in each of the 43 constituencies in the next general election after becoming the biggest party in local government and steadily recovering from its collapse in 2011.

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 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.

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.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is to contact the Gardaí over "serious allegations" made against people linked to Rehab.

Public Accounts Committee chairman John McGuinness has said the treatment of whistleblowers in Ireland is "disgusting".

A box of evidence alleging widespread abuse of the penalty point system contains "very disturbing" information, according to the chairman of the Dáil's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) John McGuinness, who will hear evidence next week from the garda whistleblower who provided the dossier.

Public Accounts Committee chairman John McGuinness said his wife travelled on three state-funded trips abroad while he was a junior minister, but he regrets suggesting taxpayers should fund spousal travel.

A Fine Gael TD has claimed the Government thinks the Public Accounts Committee chairman has “crossed the line” and that is why information has been leaked to force him from his position.

Claims that powerful forces are at work to oust the head of a parliamentary public spending watchdog have been backed by a Government TD.

The Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee John McGuinness faced a grilling by TDs today over the recent controversy surrounding his past as a junior minister.