Ex-Rehab bosses get two weeks to respond

Former Rehab bosses Frank Flannery and Angela Kerins have been given two weeks to provide details of their pension arrangements and other information on management of the disability charity to the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee before it uses powers to compel them to come before a public grilling.

There was unanimous agreement at a meeting of the PAC last night to apply to the Committee on Procedure and Privilege which can then set in train a process to force witnesses to attend.

PAC chairman John McGuinness said he does not expect that it would be a drawn-out process, and is confident that, once the procedures committee meets to discuss the issue, the witnesses can be called in quickly.