# Public Accounts Committee

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# Rehab Group

'This isn't anything personal': PAC denies accusation of bias against Angela Kerins

Solicitors for the former Rehab boss had accused the Public Accounts Committee of being biased against her.

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May 16th 2014, 11:00 PM

# Job Done

John Moran: There was no sinister reason for my resignation

Moran said his main objective was for Ireland to exit the Troika bailout and we’ve done that now.

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May 8th 2014, 2:28 PM

# gone

The most senior official in Michael Noonan's department has resigned

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.

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May 7th 2014, 10:46 PM

# legal letters

Here are the letters Angela Kerins and Frank Flannery sent to PAC

Kerins’s solicitor says the former CEO of Rehab was hopitalised after her last appearance.

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May 6th 2014, 8:36 PM

# Fraud

Gardaí investigate employees at Burton's department over €1.2m claims

It is alleged that the employees were making payments to a number of individuals that were “not appropriate”.

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May 1st 2014, 7:10 PM

# Compellability

Angela Kerins and Frank Flannery to be forced before PAC after they 'throw kitchen sink' at committee

The Public Accounts Committee is seeking powers of compellability in the case of the two former CEOs at the disability organisation.

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May 1st 2014, 10:48 AM

# behind closed doors

The PAC is having another meeting about Rehab later - but you're not allowed to watch it

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.

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Apr 16th 2014, 12:00 PM

# kickbacks

Bus Éireann: We treat corruption claims with the utmost gravity

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.

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Apr 14th 2014, 10:00 AM

# tell us more

"Badly damaged": 8 uneasy facts exposed by Rehab's turn at PAC

Missing policies, a tussle between public and private, nice earners and losing touch with the frontline: it’s not pretty.

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Apr 11th 2014, 6:45 AM

# wood you believe

The curious case of the CEO and the coffin business

Angela Kerins, her family and Rehab’s relationship with Complete Eco Solutions is under scrutiny again. What is it all about?

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Apr 10th 2014, 11:20 PM

# keep mum

Kerins and Flannery legal threats to Rehab not to reveal finances

Solicitors’ letters were fired off to the charity group last night.

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Apr 10th 2014, 12:05 PM

# Oireachtas agenda

How much money did the HSE pay Rehab? That's top of the PAC's agenda today

What’s going on in Leinster House? Well, as you asked…

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Apr 10th 2014, 9:00 AM

# Rehab Group

Rehab management are at the Public Accounts Committee today - but Flannery and Kerins won't be there

Angela Kerins has told the Public Accounts Committee she is unwell, but Frank Flannery says he simply can’t help.

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Apr 10th 2014, 7:38 AM

# Round 2

PAC want more answers from Rehab and today they hope to get them

John McGuinness said the last time answers had to be “dragged” out of Rehab – today they want answers on public money and the group’s governance.

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Apr 10th 2014, 7:30 AM

# Rehab

Enda Kenny: 'Of course' Flannery and Kerins should appear before the PAC

The Taoiseach added that he believed charities should not pay their CEOs to lobby the government.

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Apr 8th 2014, 4:39 PM

# Gardagate

Up to €50,000 was spent on maintaining Garda station recording equipment every year

Meanwhile, the Public Accounts Committee has agreed to seek all relevant information about the procurement of recording equipment by both the gardaí and the Irish Prison Service.

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Apr 3rd 2014, 11:39 AM

# Rehab

Angela Kerins and Frank Flannery are 'absolutely expected' to attend PAC next week

The Public Accounts Committee has discussed the latest developments at the Rehab Group, including the retirement of its CEO Angela Kerins, this morning.

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Apr 3rd 2014, 11:07 AM

# gone

Mary Lou McDonald says Angela Kerins' stress was of her own making

Angela Kerins quit today, stating that the latest controversies had taken their toll on her family and the Rehab Group.

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Apr 2nd 2014, 11:06 AM

# Whistleblowers

Shatter officials deny telling Callinan that he could not withdraw ‘disgusting’ remark

The Department of Justice has responded to claims that ex-Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan’s withdrawal of the infamous ‘disgusting’ remark was delayed on the advice of Alan Shatter’s officials.

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Mar 27th 2014, 11:03 PM

# Gardagate

The PAC wants information on the systems gardaí used to record phone calls

The chairman of the Public Accounts Committee has said the committee is likely to seek information from the gardaí and the Department of Justice on the systems used to record calls in and out of garda stations.

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Mar 27th 2014, 5:01 PM

# Explainer

6 reasons why Martin Callinan resigned as Garda Commissioner

He’s gone, but why did he do it?

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Mar 25th 2014, 10:50 AM

# Cabinet split

Quinn backs Labour on whistleblowers… after Kenny tells ministers to air concerns privately

Ruairí Quinn has backed Labour colleagues calling for the Garda Commissioner to withdraw remarks that two whistleblowers’ actions were “disgusting” just hours after the Taoiseach told ministers not to air their concerns in public.

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Mar 21st 2014, 10:58 PM

# garda whistleblowers

Varadkar says Callinan should withdraw ‘disgusting’ remarks – but gardaí say he won’t

Leo Varadkar has said that Martin Callinan should withdraw remarks that the actions of two garda whistleblowers were “disgusting”.

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Mar 20th 2014, 3:00 PM

# abandoned

Over €3m 'down the drain' after 'comedy of errors' on new pathology office

Nearly €2 million was spent on consultancy during the construction of the new facilities that were only partially built before being demolished last year, the Public Accounts Committee heard yesterday.

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Mar 14th 2014, 7:45 AM

# Magdalene Laundries

Magdalene women share nearly €9m in compensation - but still waiting on healthcare

Around 250 women have accepted offers of compensation from a fund set up in the wake of the McAleese report into the Magdalene Laundries, the Public Accounts Committee heard today.

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Mar 13th 2014, 8:00 PM

# Rehab

PAC refers serious allegations about Rehab to gardaí

At a meeting this morning, the committee noted that it has received a letter from the solicitors acting on behalf of the developer John Kelly.

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Mar 13th 2014, 11:41 AM

# Oireachtas agenda

Suicide, the Irish language and Rehab

Everything happening in Leinster House today.

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Mar 13th 2014, 9:00 AM

# Rehab Group

PAC hasn’t got all the information it wanted about Rehab… or Frank Flannery

Flannery has told the PAC in a letter that he is willing to cooperate with its inquiry into the Rehab Group by, in the first instance, providing written information.

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Mar 12th 2014, 10:40 PM

# To be Frank

Flannery to quit philanthropy body, accused of ‘metaphorically giving two fingers’ to PAC

The former Fine Gael strategist and Rehab board member is also facing calls to come before the Public Accounts Committee.

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Mar 11th 2014, 4:05 PM

# Rehab

Quinn: I’d see Frank Flannery walking with Fine Gael advisors before Cabinet meetings

Meanwhile, junior minister Kathleen Lynch has said it is her personal opinion that Flannery’s position is not tenable.

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Mar 10th 2014, 12:45 PM

# Maurice McCabe

This letter confirms the PAC can't release a transcript of the garda whistleblower's evidence

Maurice McCabe’s evidence about the penalty points system will not be released.

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Mar 10th 2014, 12:06 PM

# go go go

Fine Gael adviser told to answer questions on payments from Rehab

Minister of State Paschal Donohoe says both he and the Taoiseach agree that Frank Flannery should face the Public Accounts Committee.

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Mar 8th 2014, 7:30 PM

# Rehab

McDonald: 'Flannery shouldn’t imagine that he can put his head in the sand'

McDonald said that the PAC have written to Flannery twice to attend a meeting and he should accept the invitation.

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Mar 8th 2014, 4:57 PM

# Not all Ferrero Rocher

Irish embassies employ 21 full-time cooks, but our ambassadors are 'often acting like janitors'

The Public Accounts Committee has also heard details of how over €21 million in allowances is distributed among over 300 Irish officials serving abroad.

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Mar 7th 2014, 6:00 AM

# Rehab

Angela Kerins was ‘short on the full detail’, PAC wants more info from Rehab

Meanwhile, the Tánaiste called on former Rehab CEO Frank Flannery to appear before the Public Accounts Committee.

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Mar 6th 2014, 11:25 PM

# Irish Aid

'Not appropriate' to cut Irish aid to Uganda over anti-gay laws

The Department of Foreign Affairs has argued that aid to the country is going to directly assist some of the poorest people in the world and that it’s a matter of educating people.

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Mar 6th 2014, 1:40 PM

# Holy See

'We genuinely closed the Vatican embassy for cost reasons... but no one believes us'

Department of Foreign Affairs officials have been discussing the still-controversial closure of the Vatican embassy 26 months ago. It has since been decided to reopen it.

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Mar 6th 2014, 12:43 PM