The chairman of the Dáil Public Accounts Committee, Sean Fleming, has accused bosses at Waterford Institute of Technology of “bluffing” to the committee about its relationship with commercial companies under its control.

The Dáil Public Accounts Committee has heard evidence contradicting the Garda commissioner’s account of when she learned about financial irregularities at Templemore training college.

Losses to taxpayers from the high cost of pharmaceutical drugs, and Nama’s Northern loan book sale, are among the issues that will be investigated by the Dáil Public Accounts Committee (PAC).

The Dáil Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is to appeal a High Court order that it disclose certain documents to former Rehab CEO Angela Kerins for her legal action against the committee.