Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Today, one again can see the lack of regulation of charities in this State, as well as the untold damage the revelations are doing both to the charities themselves and to the citizens who depend on them. The Government has refused for three years to implement the Charities Act 2009 and again last night, its Members voted against the Sinn Féin Bill, which would have resulted in a supplementation forthwith. Ongoing revelations of excessive pay to charity chief executive officers, serious questions over fund-raising, and a lack of transparency and accountability have deeply angered citizens, particularly those suffering at the end of the brutal austerity cuts in recent years. I believe what has been uncovered at the CRC, Irish Water, Poolbeg and elsewhere is a toxic political culture of top ups, bonuses, jobs for the boys and contracts for the elite. Again, one reads in the newspapers today of a former chief executive officer of Rehab and long-time adviser of Fine Gael billing the company for consultancy services using a dissolved company.

That all suggests something rotten in the state of Denmark. CRC had very close links with Fianna Fáil.

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