Former Rehab CEO’s damages case relates to Dáil PAC’s actions, not utterances, Supreme Court told

The impact of being subjected to a “witch hunt” style of questioning, when she appeared before the committee in February 2014 amid controversy over her €240,000 salary, caused her to become so unwell that she attempted to take her own life. She resigned from her position that April.

The court found in 2019 that the PAC acted unlawfully as a whole by straying significantly outside its terms of reference and the terms of an invitation to her, which permitted questioning about her salary and the operation by Rehab of three State-funded schemes. The committee persisted, without jurisdiction, in pursuing an application to examine her again following the February sitting. That, said Mr Rogers, was a “collective action”.

Her case was also supported by various utterances made by some of the PAC members when they were outside the committee chamber, he said.

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