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
Ms Mary Hayes:
I will answer on the lower numbers in housing first, if that is okay. The phrase "fail rate" is a bit cruel ,but an 85% success rate is what we expect in respect of housing first. We expect about 15% of the tenancies to end and that those people will need rehousing. That is built into how housing first works. There has also been quite a high number of deaths. The deaths are occurring because of the profile of the people we are putting into housing first, who have chronically compromised health plus long-term histories of homelessness. We are intending to replace but we are not in a position to take on new tenancies, but we will get there.
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