Former health ministers may face grilling on Console financial crisis

Former health ministers James Reilly and Leo Varadkar may face a public grilling before the end of this month over how much was known about the Console financial crisis while they were in office.

The Irish Examiner understands the possibility of the two politicians being hauled before the Dáil Public Accounts Committee will be raised at the committee’s first meeting since the election today.

The request, which will come at the same time as an emergency meeting of Console staff called last night during which they will be told they are hundreds of thousands of euro out of pocket and services may have to be wound up, is expected to be raised by new PAC chair and Fianna Fáil TD Sean Fleming.