Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 November 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Exceptional Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion
2:00 am
Catherine Ardagh (Dublin South Central, Fianna Fail)
We heard that the investigations took over a year. Many times, if, say, there is an investigation into an employee, the employee would be suspended pending the outcome of the investigation. For the purposes of a charity, the only suspension that could be done is to apply to the High Court to have the trustees removed. From what we are learning, it would seem that bar was reached. With the benefit of hindsight, does the regulator regret not going to the High Court to have the trustees removed at the beginning of the process, in or around October 2023 or before 2024?
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