Chair of garda medical insurance society stepped down over governance concerns 

Concerns that the St Paul’s Garda Medical Aid Society, which has a turnover in excess of €180m, was not being managed by a person with a professional background were first expressed in 2019.

The chairperson of the gardaí’s medical insurance society stepped down last year because of concerns over how the society was being governed, the Irish Examiner has learned.

Some of the concerns that the chair, Garda Stephen Sheerin, expressed had first been raised two years previously by the trustees of the St Paul’s Garda Medical Aid Society (SPGMA) but had not been addressed.