Calls for Frank Flannery to appear before the Public Accounts Committee intensified after his resignation as chairman of the Forum on Philanthropy to which Phil Hogan, Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government, had appointed him in 2011.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern yesterday pledged to move quickly to implement all 12 recommendations contained in yesterday’s report into the circumstances surrounding the appointment of Monica Leech by Transport Minister Martin Cullen.