PAC to appeal order on Kerins files

The Dáil Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is to appeal a High Court order that it disclose certain documents to former Rehab CEO Angela Kerins for her legal action against the committee.

Last week, Ms Justice Isobel Kennedy ruled she is entitled to certain categories of documents used by the PAC relating to its probe into the funding of Rehab.

When the matter returned before her yesterday, the judge was told the PAC wanted to appeal her order because there would be a large amount of work involved in obtaining the files which the PAC had argued were not necessary for her case. If the appeal is successful, all the work in compiling those documents will have been in vain, it was argued.