Court to rule in relation to PAC's actions over Kerins

Earlier this year, the court found it had the power to make such a declaration, if the committee "as a whole" acted outside its remit and breached the terms of the invitation it extended to Ms Kerins to appear. In its judgment in February, the Supreme Court found there was no "absolute barrier" to bringing proceedings concerning the actions of an Oireachtas committee.

It found it had the power to declare the Public Accounts Committee's actions in Ms Kerins' case unlawful in light of the fact that the committee was acting outside its jurisdiction, and another Dáil committee had come to the same view.Her lawyers said the invitation issued to Ms Kerins was on limited terms, but other entirely private matters were pursued at the first hearing.

Lawyers for the State said the court had decided the committee acted beyond its remit in a significant and fully accepted finding. Separately, the court is also due to hear submissions later on who should pay the costs of businessman Denis O'Brien's failed action over statements made in the Dáil by two TDs, about his financial affairs and how another committee dealt with his complaint.

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