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.

Nothing or nobody lasts forever, but the premature taking of John Kerins and Michael McCarthy left a void their colleagues and family inevitably struggle with. But talking about them helps.

Former Rehab CEO Angela Kerins is entitled to certain documents used by the Dáil Public Accounts Committee (PAC) relating to its investigation of the funding of the organisation, the High Court has ruled.

Taxpayers will be told today they must fund the Dáil public accounts committee’s legal defence against ousted Rehab chief executive Angela Kerins, who is taking a case over claims she was mistreated by the body.

The Rehab group increased its operating profits more than five-fold in its final year under the direction of former chief executive Angela Kerins.

TOO OFTEN, the Cork team which won the 1989 All-Ireland has had to gather together in sorrow rather than joy.

Former chief executive of Rehab Frank Flannery is big on his rights. Responsibility, in the wake of the Rehab saga’s latest turn, is a matter for others, writes Michael Clifford

Former CEO of the Rehab Group Angela Kerins has claimed she lost her job and her health suffered as a direct consequence of her questioning by the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee in relation to State funding of the Rehab group.

Angela Kerins, the former chief executive of the Rehab Group, is seeking damages for personal injury and damage to her reputation she claims she suffered arising out of an alleged unlawful examination by the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee.

Public advertisements appear in the media in Ireland and Britain today for a new chief executive for the Rehab group.

Your clear clarion call to Rehab and its erstwhile CEOs (by two) — “Come clean or lose funds” (editorial, April 10) — could, of course, be applied to many so-called ‘voluntary’ agencies across the country.

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.

There will be “no moving on” from the crisis engulfing the charity sector unless two former bosses of Rehab come forward and “explain themselves”, according to the chairman of the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) John McGuinness.

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 public will be exasperated neither Angela Kerins, outgoing head of the Rehab charity, nor ex-CEO Frank Flannery, who retired in 2006, will attend today’s meeting of the Public Accounts Committee.

Rehab has said it cannot force its former chief executive, Angela Kerins, to appear before next week’s meeting of the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee because she no longer works for the charity, as of today.

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.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has backed the PAC’s decision to involve gardaí in the deepening Rehab affair, saying that he “expects” the charity to provide full financial transparency when it returns to the Dáil committee next month.

Gardaí have been asked to investigate “serious allegations” surrounding “named individuals” at crisis-hit disability charity Rehab, after a detailed letter made claims which “potentially involve criminal wrongdoing”.

Rehab officials who dodged Thursday’s Dáil grilling are set to be hauled in to explain their no-show — with the group told its €83m-a-year State funding could be slashed if they fail to reveal all pay levels.

Driving to my place of employment as a PAYE worker, I listened as RTÉ’s Morning Ireland related yet another story of fellow PAYE workers seeking to hold on to some aspect of their diminishing employment conditions.

PAC members want more details on pay scales

Under-fire disability group Rehab is paying its chief executive Angela Kerins almost a quarter of a million euro a year — but has failed to confirm other high-ranking officials’ salaries.

The chief executive of Rehab, Angela Kerins, is paid an annual salary of €240,000 the company have said.

Organisations and charities such as the Rehab Group which receive over €250,000 of taxpayer funding should adhere to public pay policy, Health Minister James Reilly told the Dáil yesterday.

The Rehab Group is set to cave in to intense political and public pressure and will reveal the complete remuneration package of its CEO, Angela Kerins, following the planned board meeting in four weeks’ time.

THE Kerins’ brothers, Alan and Mark, were outstanding as All-Ireland club champions Clarinbridge eased past Mullagh (2-14 to 0-10) in the Galway SHC quarter-final replay in Athenry.

Kerins is reported to receive a salary package upwards of €400,000.....How can the public continue to have confidence in Rehab? The service it provides is beyond reproach, but what are people handing over money for?

NO time for self-pity for O’Loughlin Gaels defender Brian Hogan in the wake of the St Patrick’s Day All-Ireland Club senior hurling final loss.

THERE may be a tendency in the GAA to liberally bestow classic status on games, but the rush to throw garlands on this All-Ireland Club SHC semi-final is wholly justified.

KERINS O’RAHILLYS (Kerry) 1-8 MOYLE ROVERS (Tipperary) 0-9

THE Galway senior hurlers may be struggling to go the final step to glory but Clarenbridge’s Alan Kerins has been named the GPA’s inaugural Halifax Fair Play award winner.

ALAN KERINS will play no part in Galway’s bid for the Sam Maguire having committed himself to Conor Hayes’s hurling panel for 2006.