Poll: Should there be a salary cap for CEOs of charities?
The recent scandal at Console has dragged the practices of many Irish charities into the spotlight.
CHARITIES HAVE BEEN well and truly under the spotlight in Ireland over the past few weeks following revelations about many financial wrongdoings at suicide helpline operator Console.
A HSE audit of the charity highlighted that up to half a million euro of the organisation’s funds were spent on lavish foreign trips and designer clothes.
The fallout from the Console scandal has seen the charity’s chief executive Paul Kelly resign from his position, while many other charities where there is no evidence of impropriety have also been dragged into the spotlight.
Earlier this year, TheJournal.ie crunched the numbers on 40 charitable organisations in Ireland and showed that many chief executives of charities earn in excess of €100,000 per annum.
Enable Ireland’s Fionnuala O’Donovan was the highest earner with a gross salary of €145,679 a year, followed by Barretstown chief executive Dee Ahern (€142,800) and Rehab’s Mo Flynn (€140,000).
So taking all that into account, we’re asking readers: Should there be a salary cap for CEOs of charities?
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