Hearing ‘an inquiry’ into charity sector

A hearing of the Dáil Public Accounts Committee into payment of public monies to the Rehab Group was “truly an inquiry into the charity sector” and the earnings of people in that sector, the High Court has been told.

“If you were in the way of that, the PAC steamroller would knock you down,” John Rogers said.

Former Rehab CEO Angela Kerins was publicly exposed by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), “with no notice whatever”, to questions about the charity which inferred impropriety, lack of transparency and “even illegality”, counsel said.