Benefacts had 'little engagement' with department ahead of funding cut

Patricia Quinn said: “No records of meetings were shared. Members of the committee - whose members included State bodies with which Benefacts had a working relationship - were specifically asked to withhold the fact that meetings were being held and the matters under discussion from the company." Photo: Maxwells

The company behind Ireland’s biggest database on non-profits says it was the last to know its State funding was to be cut.

Civil servants at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER) held meetings that did not include representation from Benefacts, the managing director of the company has claimed.