Call for ex-Rehab chiefs to ‘explain themselves’

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.

Angela Kerins, who retired as chief executive of the charity last week, and her predecessor, Frank Flannery, both have “substantial questions to answer” he said after their failure to attend yesterday’s meeting as part of the committee’s examination into spending at the disability charity.

In six hours of hearings, Rehab’s director of finance, Keith Poole, accepted that Ms Kerins’ pay package, which amounted to €272,4000, was paid for from state funding.