The Public Expenditure Minister Brendan Howlin says the former head of the Central Remedial Clinic could be compelled to appear before an Oireachtas Committee.

Questions remain over Health Minister Dr James Reilly's stake in a private nursing home while in government, Sinn Fén has claimed.

Democratic Unionist Party leader Peter Robinson today handed Gordon Brown a financial bottom line on the transfer of policing and justice powers from Westminster to Stormont.