Numbers of Irish charities no surprise

Your editorial (Sept 15) states: “Who would have believed that there are 7,800 charities in Ireland?”

I would have, and I have known this fact for over five years, and I have endeavoured without any success to bring this issue of unaccounted “charities” funding, which borders on a scandal, to the public’s attention through the mass media and elected officials, without any success.

For the most part we do not have charities in Ireland — we have “charities for profit”, with the majority of “the profit” going to exorbitant salaries of the CEOs and staff who run them.