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
Mr. Brendan White:
I thank Deputy McAuliffe. First, it is true that the Peter McVerry Trust was very successful with the CAS programme. From about 2018 onwards, it made almost 500 CAS acquisitions. Most of its CAS projects are CAS acquisitions, so single units. The trust was going out and had a strategic plan to keep growing and growing on that. We have obviously learned a bit from this process now. We have had the AHB strategic review and that has been informed by some of the issues around the Peter McVerry Trust from a capital standpoint. One of things we are putting in place initially for our CALF programme, but at which we are looking for CAS as well, is a new protocol. CAS tends to have a lot of smaller AHBs by its nature because it for disability, the elderly and homelessness. This would not necessarily have fixed this problem but when a funding application comes in from an AHB that has not recently requested funding, we are putting a protocol in place where it will have to come in with certain documentation such as strategic plans and that sort of stuff. We are working on that and there is a number of other-----
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