Leo Varadkar faces PAC grilling over Strategic Communications Unit

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar could be hauled before a powerful Dáil committee to answer questions over the Strategic Communications Unit (SCU) controversy as soon as next week under plans to be finalised this morning.

The cross-party public accounts committee (PAC) will make a decision on whether to demand that Mr Varadkar attends an upcoming meeting on the scandal or to limit questions to back-room officials after a series of requests from opposition parties.

Correspondence to the committee seen by the Irish Examiner shows Fianna Fáil TDs Marc MacSharry and Bobby Alyward, Sinn Féin TDs David Cullinane and Jonathan O’Brien, Labour TD Alan Kelly and Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy have all insisted the SCU must be discussed by the committee.