Chairman John McGuinness confirms PAC will seek legal powers to compel former Rehab CEO's to attend

The Public Accounts Committee is to take the unprecedented step of seeking legal powers to force two former Rehab CEO’s to appear.

The committee is to seek the powers of compellability to secure the attendance of Frank Flannery and his successor Angela Kerins.

The decision comes after lawyers for the two former chief executives told TD’s they still had reservations about attending.

The committee’s chairman John McGuinness says the committee doesn’t bear personal grudges against Rehab or its former chiefs.