The Committee on Procedures and Privileges rejected attempts to call Frank Flannery, the former CEO of the Rehab Group, and his successor, Angela Kearns, in for questioning over its spending. 

The former CEO of the Rehab Group, Frank Flannery, says the Public Accounts Committee was "totally out of order" to try and question him over its spending.

The Dáil's Public Accounts Committee has been told it cannot force two former CEOs of Rehab to come before it, ahead of today's meeting.

Former charity chiefs could be compelled to answer questions about spending state funds under proposals to beef up the investigative powers used by the Public Accounts Committee.

Former members of the board of the Central Remedial Clinic, who were forced out over the charity top-ups scandal, have refused to turn up for a high-profile meeting on the issue.

The Dáil's Public Accounts Committee has been told its request for independent legal advice will be provided by the Parliamentary legal team.

The Dáil's Public Accounts Committee is to seek independent legal advice over its attempt to compel witnesses.

Common sense should be applied when using comments of the past to measure any bias of TDs and senators who will sit on the committee carrying out the banking inquiry, according to its chairman, Labour’s Ciarán Lynch.

A Garda whistleblower will learn in the coming days whether he will be provided with a transcript of his evidence given in private to the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee on a failure to properly implement the penalty points system.

A banking inquiry is now expected to be up and running by May, before the local and European elections.

Fine Gael rebels have denied threatening to set up a right-wing party in order to try and bounce Enda Kenny into allowing them a bigger role in the Dáil.

Dáil technical group colleagues of under-fire TD Mick Wallace have refused to rule out voting to censure the Independent deputy.

INDEPENDENT TD Michael Healy-Rae has bowed to pressure to pay €2,600 for thousands of phonecalls made within Dáil Eireann that helped him win a television show.

THERE were calls for an inquiry into who abused the Leinster House phone facilities to help the son of a TD win a celebrity television show.

Green Party leader John Gormley says the time has come for a complete review of how Oireachtas members spend public money overseas.