Sir, – May I congratulate you on your article concerning the administration of charitable bodies (“Over 40 per cent of charities pay chief executive more than €100,000”, Pamela Duncan and Eoin Burke-Kennedy, December 19th). This is a textbook example of the media acting as a watchdog in the public interest.
It would be distressing to think of anybody in whom public trust is placed and to which the community at large contribute directly or indirectly in the belief that such contributions would procure essential services whether for the relief of poverty, the treatment of illness or otherwise aiding and comforting the needy, would fritter away such resources in over-rewarding its own administrators.
This is just the sort of thing that might happen in the private sector – thank God we can rest assured that there is no danger of this kind of feckless abuse in public sector administered bodies such as the HSE.
Keep up the good work. – Yours, etc,