Pressure on Flannery to appear before PAC

Labour has stepped-up pressure on senior Fine Gael adviser Frank Flannery to tell all to the Public Accounts Committee after his role trying to influence Government policy drew opposition fire.

Social Protection Minister Joan Burton said it was time for the Rehab charity to engage in full “disclosure” after a series of damaging revelations.

The controversy took a new twist after it was reported that Mr Flannery, a Rehab director, had been paid by the charity to lobby government departments on its behalf in 2011 and 2012.