PAC asked to review Katherine Zappone's appointment to UN

Sinn Féin TD Matt Carthy has written to the Public Accounts Committee requesting that PAC examine the financial implications of the appointment of former children's minister Katherine Zappone as UN special envoy

The fallout from the appointment of Katherine Zappone as a special envoy is not going away. Picture: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

A second Oireachtas committee has been asked to review the appointment of Katherine Zappone to the UN.

Sinn Féin TD Matt Carthy has written to the chair and secretariat of the Public Accounts Committee requesting that PAC examine the financial implications of the appointment of former children's minister Katherine Zappone as UN special envoy on freedom of opinion and expression.