Rehab chiefs don’t have to face PAC

The Dáil Public Accounts Committee has been refused permission to compel former Rehab chief executive Angela Kerins and Frank Flannery to appear before it after both previously declined.

However, the PAC has been given the green light to bring three people before it in relation to the controversial National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund, an account into which the Comptroller and Auditor General found €4m in State money was paid and which was run by members of Siptu.

The Dáil Committee on Procedure and Privileges (CPP) met yesterday evening to consider PAC applications for powers to compel witnesses and documents in relation to both Rehab and the fund run by the Siptu officials to be brought before it.