Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 November 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Exceptional Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Fergal O'Leary:
It was part of the conditions. If I may go back to earlier questions around removal of trustees, when our inspector's report laid bare the problems with the trust, when we published it in December, we sat down with the then chairperson and current CEO and asked them what assurance they could give us that the board and the executive could manage this organisation. We had some detailed, constructive conversations there and it became very clear there would be significant board turnover and that started in February of this year. Now we have a totally new board there. Under our governance standards, what they are required to do shortly is to review their own operation and provide us with assurance they are capable of running the organisation.