Peter McVerry Trust has 'financial issues'.

More dodginess reported today:

Corruption is rampant in the poverty industry.

15 million euro bailout...

Why can't places be left fail?

The board were a joke, deserve a court date.

They should also be disqualified from being directors again at any other company.

The links I have posted are all from The Irish Times. Seems to be the same journalist for each so they must be getting the info from somewhere that other media aren't.

The new secular church is just as bad as the Catholic one.

I remember a clown in one of these threads that went off on anybody daring to suggest that the wonderful Peter McVerry and his trust were anything but the best of the best.

But facts are facts, and whats happening in McVerry and all of these so-called "charities" has been disgraceful for quite some time.

Why close it down when it seems by the article that rogue CEO was mismanaging funds?

It absolutely crazy that these ‘charities’ get funded by the taxpayer to house junkies in apartments beside normal people. I’m sorry but if you have addiction issues you should be placed in a shelter.

A lot of questions to answer - I know good people from financial services backgrounds now retired who wouldn’t darken the door of a charity board - way too much compliance to get caught up in and too much responsibility- and that’s just being a volunteer board member.

Not going to predict or second guess the outcome of this review but we’ve seen very badly run charities too often in Ireland - the current regulations and oversight don’t appear to be working too well

This is really shocking and I hope it gets the attention it deserves. The Capuchin donation was obviously misused but if I recall this charity was also getting tens of millions from the taxpayer and the amount was increasing significantly year on year. The Govt would do well to audit some of funds it is giving to charities and NGOs before more of these situations arise.

On another note, I always remember when the budget would give households a modest amount back in tax relief or reductions and Peter McVerry was always wheeled on to lecture us on giving tax cuts when there were so many homeless etc. I'm very glad that those households got their €30 or €40 per month and it wasn't funnelled into organisations like this when you see what happened subsequently.

The Console charity debacle was what did it for me- I’ve cut back big time on charity donations- leaving the charity subject of this thread aside as it’s still under review so don’t wish to say anything on that charity per se, it does seem though that there are a bunch of people out there running a charity like they own their own business, imposing their authority and getting paid handsomely whilst having their ego stroked - a lot of power and control and way more than if they were an employee in a company- but with no accountability

We’ve see big salaries but then we’ve seen additional expense accounts, spouses employed, very shaky relationships with other companies owned by family members etc etc amongst other things - and that’s before Console and ripping donation envelopes open behind a locked door and pocketing the cash.

I’m sick of it - I’m completely immune to charity muggers, stupid day time advertisements charity appeals on TV or any other type of charity appeals- it appears quite simply that a hell of a lot of our donation money goes on anything other than the target people in need

Fair enough if there is more than one bad apple but why close it down, the people that would impact are the employees that were stealing, the honest employees, and the people who depended on the charity to get by.

So why close it down, why not just get rid of the rotten apples?

Does anyone give to these charities anymore? Any charity I donate to is strictly local, with the exception of every once in a while Pieta House.

Admittedly I don't do it often or do it that much (maybe €5/6/7 a month at most), but it's only local for me.

I don't know what it is, but I got the feeling for a long time that with the bigger charities, there's more scam than charity involved. Most people I know couldn't be bothered giving anything to the likes of Concern, McVerry, GOAL and others. They're muggers with a smile and a pen than a scowl and a knife.