‘Flannery should have gone to PAC’

The former Rehab director, Frank Flannery, should have accepted the invitation to appear before the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee from “day one” according to its chairman, John McGuinness.

Mr Flannery resigned from his Government-appointed position as chairman of the Forum on Philanthropy, it was announced yesterday.

It followed Mr Flannery’s statement on Monday that he was resigning from the board of Rehab and from his involvement with election strategy in Fine Gael.