Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney will be asked to attend a Oireachtas Foreign Affairs committee investigation where he will be questioned about his role in the scandal.
The Fine Gael minister will be questioned on how Ms Zappone came to be selected for the post, how the post itself came about and how the proposed remuneration package was arrived at.
Zappone would have been paid a per diem rate based on a civil service salary of up to €109,000 as a Government envoy.
Documents sent by Mr Coveney’s department to the committee, seen by the Irish Examiner, show the time required for the job was estimated at up to 30 days during the initial six months with a “per diem payable based on principal officer scale”.
In total, the job was set to be worth up to €15,000 a year to Zappone.
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