Peter McVerry Trust has 'financial issues'.

nordic folks willing to pay higher taxes in order to facilitate such, we re not, and probably never will, hence why charities exist here, which increases the likelihood of dysfunctional outcomes…..

…ah not exactly true, but partly, i wouldnt overly worry about it, ireland isnt gonna see any major changes anytime soon, tis all good, no change is the way forward….

Company Sec is the most important position in a co with regard to proper governance.

Your friend is tin roofing, charities exist in these countries, I’ve worked with staff from Sweden seconded to a charity I worked with.

Yet more details emerge...

https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2024/0627/1456800-current-capuchin-ceo-told-of-mcverry-trust-move-to-divert-money/

Archived version

There are red flags everywhere, it's going to take a lot of digging to get to the full truth

Yep, this one hits very close to home for the Father.

Hope he has good legal advice. Disqualification from being a director or company secretary looms as the minimum punishment, if proven.

If that is true, disqualification from holding such roles is the likely outcome. If his involvement was deeper, there are questions around criminal acts of fraud.

There’s more from the gift that keeps on giving. Dodgy house purchases and the CEO buying houses with the charities money to let to his friends.

https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2024/0829/1467399-revealed-housing-agency-chief-sold-property-to-mcverry-trust/

If there was a simple way to describe this organisation it’s this from the RTE article -

‘Prime Time also revealed that the charity later gave a €200,000 per annum contract to a company co-owned by the tenant and that the contract was not offered for public tender, as required under procurement regulations. The tenant previously worked for the McVerry Trust, so at one stage he was a tenant, contractor and employee of the charity.’

No different from RTE were they paid each other big Exit Packages and claimed the CFO's job was Redundant to fiddle the Taxman out of their cut etc.

Once the charity’s governance issues were made public, there was a reduced impetus within the charity to actively fundraise because "it doesn’t look right to be going out looking for money [from the public] in the middle" of such a reputational crisis a well placed source told Prime Time.

Instead, the charity has turned to government, which relies on it for housing and supporting some of the most vulnerable citizens in the State. The charity recently received a €15m bailout from the government.

Typical. Organisation is a corrupt shambles so the taxpayer is forced to pick up the tab.

They didn't want to ask the public for money, so they forced the public to pay via taxes. You couldn't make this up.

If it's funded by taxes it's not a charity. I can't choose not to pay taxes.

This organisation needs to be disbanded at once and criminal investigations initiated.

They had completely different paths in life.

One took a vow of poverty and devoted most of their adult life to helping poor people, the other didn't.

This is not to excuse any wrongdoing by either Fr. McVerry or anybody else involved in the Peter McVerry Trust

TMK, monks take a vow of poverty, priests don't.

Jesuit priests do.

He never looked for money for his personal use only to help others.

Likewise he never criticised Government policy in order to improve his own lot.

The rules of his order preclude him from having money.

Are you suggesting that there was vanity involved in naming the Trust ?

RIP Willie Bermingham he did some great work.

So what? You might as well point out one is a man and the other is a woman.

Both ran organisations funded by tons of taxpayers' money and failed to account for what happened to that money.

He feckin' should be though.

In your opinion.

I expect there will be more developments in this shortly.

A good rule of thumb is to never donate to a "charity".

It's a rule of thumb so yes there will be exceptions. But since most of those organisations you mentioned are UK based I don't think I will donate either. Charity begins at home.

To clarify my stance I am always very wary of charities that fundraise based on the personality of one individual figure head. In my opinion that shows a foundation based on personality and ego. The PMVT is a perfect example. I actually don't doubt that Fr Peter himself had good intentions. He was probably a useful idiot for the real puppet masters who made the real money. There are dozens more smaller examples on go fund me at the moment. These include several examples fronted by children who claim to be campaigning on some issue like an Irish Greta Thunberg. But in reality they are just a front for unscrupulous parents that know that no one would donate to them so they plop the child in front of the cameras and watch the money roll in. They do this knowing when the **** inevitably hits the fan it's the child's name and reputation that will be destroyed in the media not their one and they will be free to just move onto the next scam. I suspect in many ways Fr Peter is like these children. The men who profited from this scandal will keep their heads down and will be back on the charity board circuit in 12 months. Fr Peter will probably die penniless in a home for retired priests and the headlines the next day will all include the word "disgraced".

All the charities I listed are active in Ireland providing much needed services to Irish people.

Thank you for recognising Fr. McVerry 's good intentions but characterising him as a useful idiot is wide of the mark.

He actually delivered for poor people for many years when the rest of society looked the other way.

Trawling through Go Fund Me pages will not give you a reliable picture of the charity sector.

Greta Thunberg never drew a salary from her activities and her foundation only existed to give money away.

It's illegal for board members of charities in Ireland to be paid.

Fr. McVerry will die penniless because he has had a vow of poverty since he became a Jesuit many years ago.

I have always been distrustful of celebrity priests, going back to Michael Cleary and Eamon Casey. McVerry doesn't have the inherent evilness of those two, but he also likes the spotlight, and it is under his watch as Chairperson of the charity that the money was misspent.