From broadband and Brexit to swings and printers, TDs kept up the tradition of irritating voters with bizarre behaviour, writes Political Editor Daniel McConnell

The Oireachtas spent more than €426,000 on barristers' fees in defending the cases taken by Angela Kerins.

Tough new sanctions for politicians and remedies for citizens wronged by them are to be slapped on TDs and senators in the autumn following the Angela Kerins judgement.

TDs and senators have been told they are wrong to feel there will be a "chilling effect" on their work in committees as a result of the Angela Kerins Supreme Court ruling.

Oireachtas committees “will not be nobbled” despite new laws being needed after the damning Angela Kerins Supreme Court judgement, the Dáil chairman has insisted.

Ex-FAI boss John Delaney’s stone-walling of Oireachtas committees will not be allowed “happen again” under new rules being prepared by authorities, Dáil chairman Seán Ó Fearghaíl has said.

The chairman of the Dáil, Ceann Comhairle Sean Ó Fearghail, has said pending reforms as to how committees operate would negate any need for sanctions for politicians who break the law.

The Chairman of the Dáil, Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaíl, has said pending reforms as to who Committees operate would negate any need for sanctions for politicians who break the law.

The Dáil’s ceann comhairle, Seán Ó Fearghaíl, has made a public apology to ex-Rehab chief executive Angela Kerins over her treatment by TDs, warning that a clampdown on committee powers is now needed.

A High Court judge has urged the HSE to reconsider its refusal to fund a specially designed home care package to provide future care for a woman in a vegetative state for more than ten years.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar acknowledged ex-Rehab chief executive Angela Kerins was "treated badly" by a previous Dáil public accounts committee during its pursuit of serious financial issues at the organisation.

Probe into fallout as court rules PAC acted unlawfully over Kerins

A seven judge Supreme Court has ruled the Dáil Public Accounts Committee acted unlawfully in its treatment of former Rehab CEO Angela Kerins’ when she appeared before two hearings of the committee.

It’s one of the most famous lines from Father Ted: the money was just resting in my account. But at least Father Ted knew how many accounts he had.

One hundred years ago today British troops massacred 379 Indians at Jallianwala Bagh — also known as Amritsar.

Something has to change.

The FAI may feel that Wednesday's Oireachtas Committee appearance was a victory, but the questions that remain will prove to be an own goal in time if they are not answered. Here are the issues that remain, despite the lengthy exchanges in Committee Room 4 of Leinster House, writes Joe Leogue.

A declaration by the Supreme Court that the Dáil Public Accounts Committee acted unlawfully towards former Rehab CEO Angela Kerins would have a “chilling” effect on the work of parliamentary committees, lawyers for the State and PAC have told the court.

A seven-judge Supreme Court will hear final submissions today before deciding whether or not the Dail Public Accounts Committee acted unlawfully "as a whole" in its treatment of former Rehab CEO Angela Kerins.

TDs are to submit their lines of questioning to the FAI and John Delaney ahead of their appearance before the Oireachtas Sports Committee over governance concerns later this month.

Robert Watt, secretary general at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, made headlines last week when he appeared first before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and then the finance and public expenditure committee on the same day.

There have been calls for a new standards body to set rules for Oireachtas committees and for members to be trained following a significant Supreme Court ruling.

The PAC acted beyond its scope in its questioning of Rehab former CEO, Angela Kerins, but balancing the power of legislature with the rights of the individual will not be easy, says

Some of the country's top public officials have warned the Angela Kerins judgement could cost the taxpayer “millions of euro” in damages.

The Constitution gives no immunity to parliamentary committees who unjustly attack the personal rights of a citizen as was done to former Rehab CEO Angela Kerins, her lawyer has told the Supreme Court.

A victory for former Rehab CEO Angela Kerins in her appeal over her treatment by the Dail Public Accounts Committee would undermine “a core principle of our democracy”, freedom of speech in parliament, the State has told the Supreme Court.

A seven judge Supreme Court will hear separate appeals this month by former Rehab CEO Angela Kerins and businessman Denis O’Brien.

The Rehab group is to drop its name and completely rebrand as its name “is no longer fit for purpose”.

The Dáil Public Accounts Committee must pay two-thirds of former Rehab CEO Angela Kerins’ costs of her failed case over its conduct of hearings, concerning public monies paid to the Rehab group, the High Court has ruled.

Businessman Denis O’Brien has lost his High Court action over statements made by two TDs in the Dáil about his banking affairs after he had got court injunctions restraining RTÉ publicising that information.

Ex-Rehab boss Angela Kerins said she is “very disappointed” by her High Court defeat in her case against members of the Public Accounts Committee.

Former Rehab CEO Angela Kerins could face a substantial legal costs bill after losing her High Court case seeking damages against the Dáil Public Accounts Committee over its conduct of hearings concerning public monies paid to the Rehab group.

Free speech is upheld, but political caprice is unrestrained, in an Oireachtas where voluntary restraint is in short supply, writes Gerard Howlin.

One departing staff member at Rehab received salary and redundancy payments of €300,000 to €310,000 last year.

TD Shane Ross wrote an article after former Rehab CEO Angela Kerins and other Rehab officials appeared at the Dáil Public Accounts Committee (PAC) asserting that, “for sheer neck, no-one has come within a whisper of Angela Kerins and her charity gang”, the High Court has heard.

The Dáil Public Accounts Committee (PAC) was entitled to ask about salaries paid by the Rehab Group, including to its former CEO Angela Kerins, because various group companies receive €80m annually in public funds, the High Court has heard.

Counsel for members of the 2014 Public Accounts Committee has told the High Court it has no jurisdiction to grant the reliefs sought by Angela Kerins.

The Dáil Public Accounts Committee (PAC) was entitled to know if the public was getting value for “huge” sums of public money paid to the Rehab Group, the High Court has been told.

Former Rehab Group chief executive Angela Kerins is seeking to extend the courts’ control over parliamentary proceedings in a “very significant and wholly unprecedented” way, lawyers for the Dáil public accounts committee have told the High Court.

The Dáil Public Accounts Committee’s questioning of former Rehab Group CEO Angela Kerins about payments of public monies to Rehab seemed based on “some concept of accountability”, the High Court has been told.

The Dáil Public Accounts Committee (PAC) knew, before former Rehab CEO Angela Kerins appeared before it two years ago that the manner in which it proposed to inquire into the affairs of the Rehab group was “off limits”, the High Court has been told.