Charities must be held accountable

Your clear clarion call to Rehab and its erstwhile CEOs (by two) — “Come clean or lose funds” (editorial, April 10) — could, of course, be applied to many so-called ‘voluntary’ agencies across the country.

These are the ones who operate in a convenient nether world of dubious ‘not-for-profitism’ and bloated salaries and perks. Added to the regular (and substantial) statutory, grant-aided bonanza they receive are the funds from an unsuspecting public, who generously cough up their precious shekels, in good faith, for noble, empathic reasons.

“The Flannery-Kerins axis”, which you flag correctly, is alive and kicking in many shaded corners of everyday statutory delivery. &