The night before a double election. By Saturday, even the most shocking revelations will have been memory-holed.RTE Prime Time will be covering this some of this topic tonight.
Homeless charities, and domestic charities in general, have replaced the Catholic Church as the unquestionable font of truth and moral guidance. It's funny that a society that was, righty in my opinion, so critical of the abuses of institutions of the RC Church is now so willing to accept as fact the utter drivel trotted out by badly run populist left wing lobby groups masquerading as charities and accept without even the briefest pause the bona fides of the people who run them.RTE Prime Time will be covering this some of this topic tonight.
A report on charities regulation by reporter Paul Murphy and producer Isabel Perceval is broadcast on the Thursday 6 June edition of Prime Time at 9.35pm, and also on RTÉ Player.
Also from RTE, publication of an internal report at the Peter McVerry trust:
One document dating from September 2023, one year after the Capuchin donation was made, states that only 9% of the €4.73m donation, or €430,000, was used in accordance with the stated wishes of the donor.
In another breach of its legal agreement, €350,000 of the Capuchin money was transferred to a non-profit company, now called NDP Counselling and Psychotherapy. It is unclear why such a large sum of money was transferred to NDP as it did not provide services to the Peter McVerry Trust.
"There was no commercial link… there was no service link," said David Hall.
After discovering the €350,000 transfer to the psychotherapy company, Mr Doyle's replacement as CEO, Francis Doherty, who resigned after less than five months at the helm, requested that the money be returned to the McVerry Trust, and it was.
In the internal McVerry Trust documents, which post-date Mr Doyle’s departure in May 2023, NDP is described as an "an entity supported by PMVT [Peter McVerry Trust] and where the outgoing CEO Pat Doyle was to take up a permanent role."
Internal files reveal breach of trust at major housing charity
Internal documents obtained from inside the Peter McVerry Trust show significant breaches of trust between it and donor organisations, and cast new light on issues raised about its corporate governancewww.rte.ie
The night before a double election. By Saturday, even the most shocking revelations will have been memory-holed.
The best little country in the world.
One document dating from September 2023, one year after the Capuchin donation was made, states that only 9% of the €4.73m donation, or €430,000, was used in accordance with the stated wishes of the donor.
In another breach of its legal agreement, €350,000 of the Capuchin money was transferred to a non-profit company, now called NDP Counselling and Psychotherapy. It is unclear why such a large sum of money was transferred to NDP as it did not provide services to the Peter McVerry Trust.
fact the utter drivel trotted out by badly run populist left wing lobby groups masquerading as charities and accept without even the briefest pause the bona fides of the people who run them.
Just listening to the news few minutes ago and it was the Capuchins who made a donation to McVerry Trust with conditions on it's use.Peter McVerry is a Jesuit. Where do the Capuchins come in?
The media has some part in this:
2) Endless airtime for charismatic charity heads who haven’t the first clue about corporate governance.
I would mostly agree with you.The work done by the many, many charities in Ireland should be done by the State
The State should not offload its responsibility to 3rd parties
The Charities in the Homeless sector don't advocate for the homeless as much as lobby for a particular political agenda. They present those living on the street as homeless and then count young people who are still living with their parents as homeless.I am confused.
What lobby groups are you referring to?
Some of these charities have been poorly managed from a financial point of view.
But fundamentally they have done and are doing good work.
Some of them are lobbying as part of their work - but if a homeless charity lobbies for the homeless, I am ok with that, even if I disagree with them.
Brendan
You’re right that it’s not all bad. In many cases charities are more agile and supply services cheaper than if the state did it directly.In the main today the "larger" charities have permanent staff with associated costs.
The Charities in the Homeless sector don't advocate for the homeless as much as lobby for a particular political agenda.
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There is a lack of integrity in how they present their case, more propaganda than data. That culture of playing fast and loose with the facts seems to be matched in some cases by their financial controls.
And because a Charity from the Homeless sector advocated for it it must be a good idea. If you don't think it's a good idea then you hate the homeless and are evil and right wing because the charity is good and left wing.The McVerry Trust pushed hard for rent controls.
https://x.com/PMVTrust/status/788996939761213440?t=DizFFJ8ULdNnQ1TD0c22Lw&s=19
Pushed for the the eviction ban also, if I recall correctly. Threshold seem to have had a lot of influence over policy in the rental sector for the past number of years as well.The McVerry Trust pushed hard for rent controls.
https://x.com/PMVTrust/status/788996939761213440?t=DizFFJ8ULdNnQ1TD0c22Lw&s=19
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