Peter McVerry Trust has 'financial issues'.

Actually, it tells you an awful lot, you get a very clear idea of the commission that they pay the chuggers and others who collect money on their behalf. You are lucky if 60% of what you donate to a chugger makes it to the organisation, and after that, there is the money that is spent on administration, on lobbying and on marketing.

In some cases, it seems to me that the donated element is spent on administration, commission, lobbying and marketing, and it is only the government grants that actually get spent on what they should be spent on, presumably because the C&AG will come after them for that.

Wouldn't give a penny to any of the big charities.

Especially those fuckers in the RNLI or ONE and definitely that shower DEBRA.

Guess what charity I work ?

“posting from my holiday home in the Caribbean “.

That’s exactly what happens in hostels , if you’re troublesome I.e. aggressive, not paying rent , not engaging around care plans you’ll be swapped between the likes of Focus , Simon etc

I remember him saying that the government had judges sending people to jail to lower the homelessness figures. He’s Paul Murphy in a cassock.

The local councils admit they are aren’t experts when it comes to dealing with homelessness and they along HSE fund PMVT and the other homeless charities to the tune of millions a week because they call themselves the experts in dealing with homelessness.

They aren’t they just want to get their foot in the door and become landlords these charities want a revolving door of homelessness to keep that money flowing.

And huge amounts of mental health, disability care etc charities also doing the HSEs work.

The funding going to these gets thrown in to the "NGO" bucket in the over-simplistic reporting that makes up most Irish media; which feeds conspiracy theory loons thinking that that's all going to foreign aid charities etc.

All done to keep the figures - and more importantly, the responsibility - on someone else's books.

That court cases that stopped the state blaming the patrons of schools for sexual abuse liability should have been enough to stop this charade dead though. But it wasn't somehow

A good few years ago my nephew got a job as a chugger for 2 weeks before he was let go for not making his sales.

If I remember correctly he told me he was getting €11 an hour at the time, but he had to make an average of 6 DD sign ups per day each week or he was let go. He made 6 in week opne and 2 in week 2 and was asked to go. He was sick of it at that point anyway. Said he just felt he was conning people out of their money.

He said that he enjoyed it the first week because he got to chat to good looking tourists, who never signed up, but used to chat to him.

By the second week he noticed that almost all of the actual signups were little old ladies probably on the OAP that he felt he guilted into and his heart just wasnt in it anymore.

I can take the flack so I'll say I never had faith in this outfit or a lot like it.

For a country our size we have way too many charities. Are the regulators really watching every cent they collect or what it's actually spent on?

Could it even be possible to do so. I'm guessing there aren't too many employed in the regulators office.

We had Console the suicide charity a. Ouple of years ago and all the shenanigans involved there

CEO's of these organisations being paid large sums and for what exactly.

And don't givee this C suite nonsense. For a certain type of person working and being paid by these groups is a very cushy number and for some am opportunity to feather their own nest.

Homeless "charities" have become an industry in themselves. This is not a good thing for anyone.

Apart from any irregularities which may or may not be found the numbers listed are staggering in themselves, 53million on over 2000 service users and tenants is circa 250k on each one. That's a scandal in itself.

Questions really need to be asked whether any of these bodies are actually providing a realistic return on the funds they receive, there seems to be no deep dive into their actual results. Everyone seems happy to just accept their word that they are while they clamour for more funding.

We've tried this before, farming out public services to private interests, it ended in scandal. So it will again.

I've been critical of McVerry and his charity for quite a long time. Not a bit surprised by this, the regulator was bound to catch up with them sooner or later.

Called this long ago.

Wouldn’t trust Mcverry one bit, if only people knew what he does with the donated money.

Country is corrupt from top to bottom.

But Da Homeless!!

Do you not know that nobody should ever get paid for doing something they enjoy. And people getting paid for providing a service that other people value is a scam

This is mad stuff.

I have voted Green for over a decade now. Previously, I voted on various occasions for Fine Gael, Labour, Fianna Fail, Progressive Democrats and independents. There has never been a political party that accurately represented my views.

What my views on "republicanism" have to do with my views on Peter McVerry Trust is strange, all seems to be wrapped up to have a go at me.

I first got interested in Peter McVerry Trust about a decade ago following a chugger keeping my talking for nearly an hour. I didn't sign up, went away, talked to people about it, looked up the finances etc., and I did not like what I saw. Huge money spent to raise not much more. Huge money wasted on publicity campaigns to boost the McVerry name, overpaid staff and executives, duplication of work of other charities leading to problems etc. I have posted on this for a long time, so not new to this.

Let us see what comes out of this investigation. I am not a whistleblower or anything like that, but I wanted this and other similar charities investigated years ago. At the very least, I am correct about that, and along you come to shoot the messenger.

Not only did they lose the run of themselves, but they got caught up in pointless finger-wagging and blame, while ignoring the huge problems inside their own organisation.

I think all charities should be looked into imho

because its doing stuff the government should be doing.

I always wondered how much in total of the budget does the government give to charity and ngos?

I get the feeling that all is not well here...what will further investigation uncover??

Has there ever been an explanation as to how a body lay in one of their flats, for possibly over a week, despite regular MVT staff visits?