Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 November 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Exceptional Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion
2:00 am
Ms Madeleine Delaney:
I was getting very unhappy in the last few months because I really wanted to see the 2023 financial statements. Now we see them, they are the most comprehensive set of statements and notes that I have ever seen and they will take a lot of digesting. To me, they were always going to signal that the trust itself had got to the bottom of everything that went on, insofar as it could.
It was laying it all out there and drawing a line in the sand, and that is very important to the ultimate resolution, particularly with these new trustees having come on board and the additional staffing they are getting as well. That is a very important aspect of it. I asked earlier whether the organisation ever reflected on whether it had the capacity or the appropriate structure for taking on the work it was doing. That was possibly a contributory factor, and those are things that we see it addressing now.
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