Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 November 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Exceptional Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of Aidan FarrellyAidan Farrelly (Kildare North, Social Democrats)

I am making assertions today but it is it arguable the trust is simply too big to fail? Nearly 5,000 people use this service. There are 700 staff. As regards the governance flaws within an organisation like this, we are all members of boards of much smaller organisations and if there were these flaws, we would be gone. Is it simply a case that this organisation was too big to fail and we tried the optimistic route instead? With the evolution of AHBRA and that working relationship between both bodies, has the trust completely fallen between the regulatory cracks at a particular time?

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