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 Grace BolandGrace Boland (Dublin Fingal West, Fine Gael)

As both a lawyer and as a trustee for a very small charity, that is a red flag in a charity the size of the Peter McVerry Trust, a charity that is getting tens of millions of euro in taxpayers' money as well as donations.

You would not expect the auditor and accountant to be the same in a company with a revenue of that amount. Why would it be allowed in a charity? I hear what Ms Delaney says about the responsibility of the trustees, but if the regulator is not flagging charities over a certain level with the same auditor and accountant, it is still doing something wrong.

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