McVerry Trust spent €300,000 refurbishing driveway and built peacock enclosure at period property

Peter McVerry Trust spent money on peacock enclosure and €300k on a driveway

The government had to provide the charity with emergency funding of €15 million in 2023.

‘Indefensible’ that housing charity spent funds on enclosure for two peacocks

Former chief executive Francis Doherty told the committee that the charity was ‘verging on total collapse’ in 2023. A homeless charity spent funds to build an enclosure for two peacocks at one of its properties in Co Kildare, an Irish parliamentary committee has heard. The Public Accounts committee was told by former chief executive of the charity Francis Doherty that his predecessor Pat Doyle had authorised the spending. Mr Doherty appeared bef…

McVerry Trust spent €300,000 refurbishing driveway and built peacock enclosure at period property

The Peter McVerry Trust spent €300,000 on refurbishing a driveway at a period property it owned in Kildare, and constructed a peacock enclosure and unauthorised lift shaft at the same property, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) heard.

Former CEO of Peter McVerry Trust spent €350k on driveway and peacock enclosure, PAC told

The Oireachtas committee heard that two of the trust's bank accounts had been almost emptied of roughly €1.5m