Tipperary's Fine Gael Minister is backing calls for Frank Flannery to appear before the Oireachtas PAC committee.
The Rehab director, and Fine Gael advisor is coming under mounting pressure to answer questions from the Public Accounts Committee.
The Fine Gael Strategist and Rehab director is under pressure to answer questions over claims that he was paid by the charity to lobby the government on a range of issues.
This morning Junior Health Minister Kathleen Lynch declined to say if Mr Flannery should resign either role, before more information is released.
And she rejected the idea that Labour would be 'jumping up and down' at this point if Fianna Fail were at the centre of the controversy.
The PAC has already given Rehab 12 specific questions it wants addressed after its chief executive Angela Kerins appeared before it two weeks ago.
Junior Agriculture Minister and Tipperary Fine Gael TD Tom Hayes says Frank Flannery needs to address the issues about the use of public money.
Member of the Public Accounts Committee and Sinn Fein TD Mary Lou McDonald says Frank Flannery is deliberately dodging questions from TDs and avoiding his public responsibility.
