Peter McVerry Trust has 'financial issues'.

Any organisation that gets the majority of its funding from State contracts shouldnt be eligible for charity status. They are a contractor of the State and should be subject to the same rigours as other contractors including having to tender for their contracts.

which just moves the question to "why do we have hundreds of disability organisations" ?

We should be providing people with public services, not pseudo-charities funded by the taxpayer

I only scanned the report - and I've zero experience at all in corporate or charity reporting and accountability, but when I looked at the conclusions it read to me ,that the trust systems were crap , leaving everything wide open to almost anyone who worked there to do what ever they wanted , not that everyone did ,

As a bord member of obviously Peter McVery himself should have done more to bring about clarity and accountability, or got out - and I'm not sure if thats a civil or legal crime .

But - I don't think it mentioned anywhere that he actively enabled or benefited from any of the dodgy dealings, not that thats an excuse for being inept or ignorant of his responsibilities ,

( Obviously this was a 5 or 6 page report,on a limited investigation, thats being careful not to slander or blame anyone )

Is there any point in going after him specifically - probably not ,

Is there a value in going after the entire board, and see what comes out , probably..

Fair enough,

And in honesty , it was his baby from the start , I assume to a degree he brought in the various board members (or at least had a strong say on the appointments ) , and if he was company secretary, he was or should of been abreast of company activities and policies ect.

Is there any training or education on duties and responsibilities of being a board member , or board officer for either charities or limited companies - feic it,if you get a job on a building site you have to do a safe pass course , a restaurant you have to do a 1 day HAACP course , not that it gives you great insight but you learn what's the minimum expected of you by law ..

Against a charity, in this country. Highly unlikely.

As you say being a priest is neither a defense , not a reason to not prosecute , but I don't think anyone has accused him of personally enriching himself , or deliberately enriching others ,

Thats not to say that his inactions ( knowingly or unknowingly ) didn't allow others to take advantage,

Is the Auditors PI insurance in play to repay any loss to charity as a result of his actions?

History hopefully will be kind to Fr. McVerry.

I don't believe he has taken money from the Trust.

Your attempt to conflate his actions with others crimes is misguided.

It's a possibility depending on the outcome of any criminal investigation that may take place.

Charities do not have have any exemption under law.

Reference the case of Bothar as an example.

In principle, I agree.

Butthat means making it illegal for anyone to say "the government isn't looking after this need, let's find a way to get the job done".

Which I don't think we'd really want either.

He is responsible for what occurred during his role as company secretary, there is no getting away from that nor should there be. Can we park the "just a simple priest", "vow of poverty" etc bollox, it's irrelevant. He was willing to become and remain the figurehead of a multi-million euro "charity" business named after him, and not only that but to be an officer of that business with very significant legal responsibilities.

A business which has been funded with large sums of taxpayers' money and been bailed out by these taxpayers due to its extremely poor governance.

Most don't start with taxpayer funding. They start voluntary and donor funded, prove that the service can br delivered. Then they lobby that it should be government funded.

The alternative to government funded is that the staff become state employees. Which would usually cost more, and deliver less service.

Your repeated attempts to handwave away his culpability is misguided.

The CEA fills that role.

https://cea.gov.ie/en-ie/