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.

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.

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 CEO of Rehab is coming under fire again today, as it emerged that her husband retained shares in a company which arranged a joint venture with Rehab.

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.