# public-accounts-committee - Thursday 4 December, 2014
# Tax Evasion Claims
# Tax Evasion Claims
A number the Sinn Féin TD’s colleagues have criticised her decision to name former politicians accused of tax evasion.
# public-accounts-committee - Thursday 20 November, 2014
# Dossier
# Dossier
The Public Accounts Committee is to seek further legal advice.
# public-accounts-committee - Friday 7 November, 2014
# Dodgy Dossier
# Dodgy Dossier
A senior civil servant has come forward with information relating to incidents that occurred over a 30-year period.
# public-accounts-committee - Wednesday 29 October, 2014
# Committee Wars
# Committee Wars
Simon Harris has defended the role of the Public Accounts Committee following criticism yesterday.
# public-accounts-committee - Tuesday 28 October, 2014
# Committee Wars
# Committee Wars
Two Oireachtas Committees are at odds over which one should probe spending at the Hepatitis C support group.
# Dáil Talk
# Dáil Talk
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
# public-accounts-committee - Thursday 23 October, 2014
# Irish Water
# Irish Water
The Public Accounts Committee was told it can’t question Irish Water boss John Tierney
# public-accounts-committee - Thursday 16 October, 2014
# The Sweetest Deal
# The Sweetest Deal
“In that area, €450,000 wouldn’t be worth a semi-detached residence.”
# public-accounts-committee - Friday 10 October, 2014
# Committee Wars
# Committee Wars
But Mary Lou McDonald has been quick to come to his defence.
# public-accounts-committee - Thursday 2 October, 2014
# PAC
# PAC
The Public Accounts Committee has published its report into the penalty points system today.
# public-accounts-committee - Tuesday 22 July, 2014
# Rehab
# Rehab
The former Rehab Group CEO has taken High Court action against the PAC.
# public-accounts-committee - Monday 21 July, 2014
# Rehab Group
# Rehab Group
Angela Kerins has launched legal action against ‘deeply distressing’ inquiry into her involvement with Rehab.
# public-accounts-committee - Wednesday 16 July, 2014
# Rehab Group
# Rehab Group
The former Rehab Group CEOs refused to appear before the committee in April.
# public-accounts-committee - Thursday 3 July, 2014
# Not Perfect
# Not Perfect
TD Simon Harris said that the Clinic’s board showed “blatant disregard” for the HSE when it hired Brian Conlan.
# Salary Top-ups
# Salary Top-ups
During today’s PAC meeting, Shane Ross questioned how the HSE could not know about the CRC’s charitable wing. He said it took him just 20 minutes to discover its existence.
# One Out Of Four Aint Bad
# One Out Of Four Aint Bad
Former CRC chair Hamilton Goulding will attend, as will his successor Kieran Timmins.
# public-accounts-committee - Thursday 26 June, 2014
# Small Mercies
# Small Mercies
*Though it’s still a whopping €159 million.
# PAC
# PAC
The Public Accounts Committee is due to hold further hearings on the scandal hit disability clinic next week.
# public-accounts-committee - Thursday 19 June, 2014
# Rehab
# Rehab
The Public Accounts Committee will now seek talks with another Dáil committee overs its efforts to compel the former Rehab CEOs.
# It Wasn't Me
# It Wasn't Me
John O’Brien, the former head of the Garda Traffic Corps, told the PAC that GSOC failed to act on foot of a report he carried out on the penalty points system in 2008.
# Road Safety Authority
# Road Safety Authority
The Public Accounts Committee was also told that about 130,000 more cars were taxed this year following an end to the practice where vehicles could be declared as “off-road” after the fact.
# Oireachtas Agenda
# Oireachtas Agenda
What else will the folks on Kildare Street be discussing?
# public-accounts-committee - Saturday 14 June, 2014
# PAC
# PAC
John McGuinness said it wasn’t an attempt to grab headlines.
# public-accounts-committee - Friday 13 June, 2014
# Promises
# Promises
It was outlined in the Dáil yesterday that discretionary medical cards won’t be returned until Cabinet comes up with a ‘legal formula’.
# Awkward
# Awkward
John McGuinness’s call for two senior health officials to resign during a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee yesterday has been criticised by some of his colleagues.
# public-accounts-committee - Thursday 12 June, 2014
# Medical Cards
# Medical Cards
John McGuinness called on the HSE’s Director General and the Secretary General of the Department of Health to resign.
# Rehab
# Rehab
The Public Accounts Committee will now seek outside legal advice as it continues efforts to compel former Rehab executives to come before it.
# Oireachtas Agenda
# Oireachtas Agenda
Tony O’Brien, Director General of the HSE, will give the lowdown to the PAC this morning.
# public-accounts-committee - Friday 6 June, 2014
# Committee Wars
# Committee Wars
The Oireachtas Health Committee is seeking to change the rules that currently prevent any other Oireachtas committee from investigating matters that are already being probed by the powerful Public Accounts Committee .
# public-accounts-committee - Friday 16 May, 2014
# Rehab Group
# Rehab Group
Solicitors for the former Rehab boss had accused the Public Accounts Committee of being biased against her.
# public-accounts-committee - Thursday 8 May, 2014
# Job Done
# Job Done
Moran said his main objective was for Ireland to exit the Troika bailout and we’ve done that now.
# public-accounts-committee - Wednesday 7 May, 2014
# Gone
# Gone
Finance Minister Michael Noonan said that it was with “great regret” that he accepted Moran’s resignation as secretary general of the Department of Finance this morning.
# public-accounts-committee - Tuesday 6 May, 2014
# Legal Letters
# Legal Letters
Kerins’s solicitor says the former CEO of Rehab was hopitalised after her last appearance.
# public-accounts-committee - Thursday 1 May, 2014
# Fraud
# Fraud
It is alleged that the employees were making payments to a number of individuals that were “not appropriate”.
# Compellability
# Compellability
The Public Accounts Committee is seeking powers of compellability in the case of the two former CEOs at the disability organisation.
# public-accounts-committee - Wednesday 16 April, 2014
# Behind Closed Doors
# Behind Closed Doors
Members of the Public Accounts Committee will discuss the ongoing controversy at Rehab and whether they should compel its former CEOs, Frank Flannery and Angela Kerins, later today.
# public-accounts-committee - Monday 14 April, 2014
# Kickbacks
# Kickbacks
The company said it will publish the content of an affidavit in which a whistleblower claimed managers took ‘kickbacks’ in return for guaranteeing school bus route contracts.
# public-accounts-committee - Friday 11 April, 2014
# Tell Us More
# Tell Us More
Missing policies, a tussle between public and private, nice earners and losing touch with the frontline: it’s not pretty.
# public-accounts-committee - Thursday 10 April, 2014
# Wood You Believe
# Wood You Believe
Angela Kerins, her family and Rehab’s relationship with Complete Eco Solutions is under scrutiny again. What is it all about?
# Keep Mum
# Keep Mum
Solicitors’ letters were fired off to the charity group last night.
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