Peter McVerry Trust has 'financial issues'.

There is no "cushy number" on the board of a charity.

Board members of a charity cannot be paid.

After watching last nights Prime Time episode investigating charities in Ireland I will not donate a single cent of my money to any charity in this country until someone is sentenced to prison for at least a year based on what was exposed. Peter McVerry Trust was always touted as a great charity doing great work, probably the best that in that your money would be going direct to the right causes, the complete opposite is the case, McVerry should step down and disassociate himself from this joke of an organisation.

There's so many existing regulations in this country for white collar crime, fraud and money laundering that people need to be behind bars after what was exposed. Then you have the handling of those exposing the fraud thrown to the ditch by the authorities they are to report governance issues to, such an absolute corrupt country we are living in, an unpoliced joke.

Transactions to Bet 365 from Cat Haven charity, did he have any big winners to treat his kittens to, lol. Hopefully the entire charity industry in the country completely collapses after seeing this.

Feel the same way, though there are local charities where members dont make money, for the most part its a huge scam, people making a living out of the charity they founded. Disgraceful that its not policed better and that the fines\deterrents aren't much bigger. Hopefully all of the big ones will collapse in the next few years.

You are right that there are good local charities which are worth supporting.

However many of the bigger charities are providing essential services to people who depend on them.

I'd prefer to see them brought into line by a stronger oversight system than to allow them to collapse and leave those who need them to suffer.

I believe if they collapse like Console , it may force government to bring them into government departments. Otherwise all of this will just happen again on repeat, I do accept your point though, I don't want anyone to lose valuable services. Maybe a bit of short term pain (and I don't say that lightly) for long term gain :)

Look at the development of charities and you see a pattern: Steps to a fortune are

1. a person with empathy sees a local problem and sets about helping out of the goodness of their heart
2. they rope in a few other people on a voluntary basis to provide what is a useful service
3. they apply for funding from local authority etc to help cover out of pocket costs
4. after a few years, they apply for funding for an office/ office worker to help organise the volunteers
5. they apply for more money each year and expand staff to include a campaign fundraiser and lobbyist
6. they establish their brand and even though still largely voluntary, start to make their service indispensable
7. once established as indispensable, they move away from the voluntary model and become fully professional
8. they continue to expand, increasing their funding requests year on year.
9. the work is important, but equally now are the pay & conditions, pension arrangements of the growing staff
10. the needs of the staff become paramount if funding is threatened.
11. it becomes an empire building exercise.

No charity should be allowed to go beyond step 2.

After that it is a business.

https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2024/0611/1454193-mcverry-contract-tender/

A transport company owned by a couple who are tenants of the Peter McVerry Trust was given a €200,000 bus contract by the housing charity without a tender process, Prime Time has learned.

One of the tenants, Alan Bollard, who operates the bus company, later went on to work as head of logistics at the McVerry Trust. 

However, public records show that in late 2016, Mr Bollard sold a home he had purchased around the peak of the property bubble, ten years earlier. Around the time of that sale, he moved into a house that was purchased by the McVerry Trust.

An internal Peter McVerry Trust document seen by Prime Time says that the "property was bought using PMVT's charitable funds and the tenants given a 25-year lease at 80% market rate."

but for several years, he was simultaneously a tenant, employee and contractor for the McVerry Trust.

I'd love to hear from the poster who used to attack anybody who dared question McVerry, I wonder if he was on the take as much as everybody else appears to have been.

Gifted a house in Cellbridge where Father Pat also lives and mates as well, always said there was money to made out of religion.

I have zero faith in the charities regulator

It gets worse, it seems. Huge questions for the Board. And I see Carr Communications with a big contract to keep everything hidden.

Carr Communication you say.

Look behind that.

Bunny Carr accused of fraud from charity.

Anything the others involved in should be suspect yet on RTE all the time even after defending the nuns and dead babies.

Was that not just a rebranding of Carr Communications?

Now the

As I think of it, did Trocaire share office space with Carr Communications on Booterswoen Avenue? At junction with Stillorgan Road where the apartments are now

Well, up until FG were in government the government provided it themselves.