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[Angerla Kerins, Rehab CEO and John Maguire, the charity’s head of fundraising leaving last week’s Public Accounts Committe]
Rehab chief executive Angela Kerins did not disclose her husband’s large shareholding in a company when she told the Public Accounts Committee that its dealings with Rehab prompted him to resign his directorship of the company….
Ms Kerins’s brother Joseph McCarthy is also director and one-third shareholder of Complete Eco Solutions and Ms Kerins’s predecessor and senior Fine Gael strategist Frank Flannery is a director and one-third shareholder
Kerins Did Not Disclose Husband’s Shares To PAC (Irish Times)
Meanwile.
Last week
At the Public Accounts Committee hearing on Payments to Rehab..
Mary Lou McDonald: “Are you uncomfortable with the notion of family members, people close to you, having a commercial relationship with Rehab – given your position, does that put you….?”
Kerins: “I, in relation to this, I would always be uncomfortable…but people and families and people help out, and try to help out the Rehab Group across all of our staff and all of the families.”
McDonald: “I’m referring specifically to a commercial and transactional relationship, not a voluntary effort.”
Kerins: “Yes, to a degree and despite what one might hear, to the degree that I absented myself from any of this decision making and our audit committee and our board had to take oversight of that. It was a short-term activity so…”
McDonald: “How long did it go on for?”
Kerins: “Deputy McDonald, I don’t have any details of that activity with me so we’ll come back to you on it.”
McDonald: “Yeah. And tell me was there any, were any other family members of yours involved in this enterprise, or any other commerical venture?”
Kerins: “My husband was a director of it. But once this activity started, he stood down.”
McDonald: “Ok. And you have no further detail than that?”
Kerins: “No, and there has been no further dealings other than that one.”
McDonald: “So when did it cease? The pilot.”
Kerins: “Again, like I said, we’ll come back to you but it was probably about 2009/2010 but let me come back to you on that, I don’t have…”
McDonald: “But they only became operational in 2009, so, and by the way, are still operational to this day.”
Previously: That’d Be The brother
(Laura Hutton/Photocall ireland)
