Mr. Francis Doherty:

There was a culture of a lack of transparency. Staff did not have insight and transparency or access to the finances. For example, I ran the communications team. I set up the communications department in the Peter McVerry Trust. Any time I asked for a budget for the year, what my spend would be and what we could do, it was done on a case-by-case basis and I would have to approach the CEO. I was never given a budget.