Catch up on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com this morning.

Here's your lunchtime news bulletin.

The head of the Dáil's Public Accounts Committee, John McGuinness, has said the HSE has been incompetent in terms of how it has dealt with a foster home, at the centre of sexual abuse concerns.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) tonight conceded that no official apology was given to the intellectually disabled victim of rape and abuse in a foster home, despite earlier claiming it was.

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.

The Dáil's Public Accounts Committee has been told it cannot compel two former Rehab CEOs to attend a public hearing.

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.

Fianna Fáil's John McGuinness says a leadership heave against party leader Micheál Martin is not on the agenda "at the moment".

The Dáil's Public Accounts Committee is expected to re-state its demand for Angela Kerins to re-appear before it next week.

Angela Kerins is set to be called in to face the Dáil's Public Accounts Committee, despite deciding to step down as the CEO of Rehab.

The Minister for Health, James Reilly, has admitted that Rehab cannot be forced to live by public pay policy – but said the government expects organisations receiving major public funding to pay staff at similar rates to public servants.

The Dáil's Public Accounts Committee has refused to issue a Garda whistleblower with a transcript of his own evidence.

The Dáil's Public Accounts Committee has heard over three hours of evidence from a serving Garda sergeant.

The Dáil's Public Accounts Committee is proceeding with its investigation into penalty points.

The HSE says it may be necessary to call the Gardaí to discuss financial arrangements at the Central Remedial Clinic.

The issue of spending at Irish Water will again come before the Dáil's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) later today to discuss accountability within the new agency.

The Dail's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is to call in the board of St. Vincent's Hospital after claims of fraud by Senator John Crown.

The Dáil's Public Accounts Committee is to hold an emergency hearing with NAMA before the Christmas break.

The chairman of the Dáil's Public Accounts Committee has said that four more agencies which are believed to have breached public pay rules will be named tomorrow.

A member of the Dáil's Public Accounts Committee has today raised concerns about corporate governance at another voluntary hospital.

Director and acting chief executive of the Central Remedial Clinic, Jim Nugent, has rejected calls for his resignation in light of controversy surrounging top-up payments to nine senior staff members at the disability agency.

The Central Remedial Clinic (CRC) is insisting it came to an agreement with the Health Service Executive (HSE) in 2009 to allow for the top-up of some salaries.

The Dáil's Public Accounts Committee is to scrutinise public service allowances.

New figures out today have shown that more than €83m was paid out by mistake or received by social welfare fraudsters in 2010.

It has been reported that efforts will be made to shed light on the decisions which led to the 2008 bank guarantees.

The Dáil's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said today it aims to conduct a public inquiry into the collapse in the financial markets which led to the banking crisis.

Prison bosses were tonight taken to task for awarding contracts worth around €95m to one company without going to tender.

The Dáil's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will today begin its investigation into the latest waste scandal in the health service.

The most senior civil servant at the Department of Finance has said the department knew of some of the difficulties at Anglo Irish Bank two years ago, but did not know their full scale.

Officials from the Department of Finance will face questioning today over the censoring of information on the bank guarantee scheme.

The Dáil's Public Accounts Committee is to scrutinise documents concerning the decision to guarantee the country's banks in September 2008.

Eircom denies that it has been charging customers for equipment which is no longer in use.

A TAX fraud blitz on the construction industry was signalled last night to squeeze the €200m black economy operating on building sites.

WHEN Denis Foley’s name appeared in Revenue’s list of settlements made by tax defaulters there was an air of inevitability to it; almost weariness.

The State's spending watchdog has exposed serious irregularities in the company accounts of Dublin's Beaumont hospital.

STARTLING disclosures by the Revenue Commissioners that offshore schemes could yield more than €1bn in unpaid tax have focused the spotlight on Ireland’s pervasive culture of tax evasion.

THE thought of the taxman arriving at the door, armed with full details of bogus non-resident accounts, is enough to give sleepless nights to the estimated 60,000 account holders.

The Tanaiste has told the Dail she is worried that proper procedures were not in place for the awarding of the contract for the aquatic centre at Sports Campus Ireland.

The embattled chairman of Sports Campus Ireland is preparing to appear before the Dail's Public Accounts Committee.