Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion
2:00 am
Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North-West, Fianna Fail)
I am trying to recall a meeting we had with a number of AHBs in regards to delivery. In the last term, there was a lot of focus on trying to ensure all the different sectors were in a position to deliver. I will try to go back and find the exact quote. Maybe let us not tie it down to one meeting. However, I was of the view that the Peter McVerry Trust was known for being very good at operating the CAS scheme and that this allowed it to deliver better than some of the other AHBs. It is a memory I have; I will have to go back and reference it. In the operation of the schemes the Department has in terms of delivery, is there any reflection the witnesses have made on those schemes which could have contributed to the situation that the trust found itself in? Apart from things that may have appropriate or inappropriate and all the rest of it, were there elements of the funding mechanisms that led specifically to issues in the Peter McVerry Trust that could have been spotted in hindsight?
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