Peter McVerry Trust has 'financial issues'.

While I don't think Peter McVerry should be in any way exempt from criticism - his name is on the door as they say. I think to focus all this on his shoulders, allows others more culpable to sneak on away.

Look at Pat Doyle, he was chief executive for 18 Years! 18! And things only begin to unravel when he walks away and a new Chief arrives in, and reports the mess that's been left.

Pat Doyle is the man who brings in his friend from a sports club to run transport PmcVT, which he contracts to himselfand then sells up his house to become tenant to PMcVT

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

Pat Doyle who tried to get the Trust to buy a €400k house for another friend

https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2024/0621/1455855-400k-spent-on-home-for-use-by-family-of-friend-of-ex-mcverry-ceo/

And Pat Doyle who authorised the Trust to give €350k to a 3rd Party company he was also director of but didn't mention....but that's ok because they gave it back when it was spotlighted in media

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/housing-planning/2024/10/19/what-went-wrong-at-the-peter-mcverry-trust/

But he's resigned and retired now, and doesn't really have to answer any of the questions. He's Dee Forbesed it.

He seems to be the one that’s being blamed here and in fact the ceo had more hands on running the money over the 50k and who got contracts with out tenders in the report, and also a board member’s family seemed to benefit from the report.

The buck stops with the board - they can claim that they were hoodwinked and mislead by an employee , but for that they'd have to drop him in it , they don't seem keen on telling all ,

I suppose They could also claim ignorance and incompetence, , but they'd probably have to stand down , and possibly other sanctions,

What the secretary in particular shouldn't get to do is claim " I"m a poor old priest ,who's taken a vow of poverty ,how would I know anything about this " while the rest of the bord members shelter conveniently behind him ,

There is a €15 million hole in the charities books , and a lot of seemingly dodgy dealings

Does there need to be intent for fraud ?

As opposed to being inept ,

Although covering for a friend and former colleague who's ripped off your charity to the tune of 15million , ( well that the hole in the books - what's missing , so that doesn't include properties that were rented out to people they shouldn't have been- but still owned by the charity-that'd be accounted for , , any one contracted in odd circumstances, that's accounted for ,

Any services procured without proper procedures - that'd be accounted for ,

actually all the things discussed previously - they might be improper but they wouldn't amount to a hole in the books- that'd be 15 million that's not there that should be - missing . . gone ..

https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0205/1494844-peter-mcverry-trust/

"The founder of the Peter McVerry Trust has stepped down from his role as company secretary of the charity."

I would say he stepped down before he was forced down. Given the shenanigans that went on, there is a good chance he would be disqualified from being a secretary.

He was on Newstalk last week and brazen would be my best description of his response to his stepping down. Basically said they were advised it was normal practice to rotate the role of secretary and it was nothing to do with the controversy surrounding the charity.

We'll see.

He’s doing that Jesuit thing of dancing on the head of a pin.

He was Company Secretary, therefore he was deemed to be a Trustee of the charity*. Consequently he has personal responsibilities and associated personal liability.

*they only changed the rules in the last few weeks so that CoSec’s of charities are no longer deemed to be trustees.

Don't forget, the longest serving Director and Company Secretary was both blissfully ignorant and innocent of all those shennanigans.

How has he not been arrested yet??