Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 November 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Exceptional Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Francis Doherty:

Yes. The organisation had a long-standing audit and risk committee. In fact, the former chair of the organisation was a member of the audit and risk committee before she became chair. What was really clear and what I was trying to address when I was recommending an independent people and skills audit of the board of the Peter McVerry Trust when I was CEO was that there were no chartered accountants on these commitments. There were people with business experience and legal experience, but nobody with actually qualified financial experience.

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