Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 November 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Exceptional Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Niall Mulligan:
They are no longer there, just to confirm that. There were peacocks, pigs, ducks and chickens. On a serious note, there is therapeutic benefit in animals being involved with people who have suffered trauma or who are experiencing trauma. We see that a lot. There is a rationale behind it. It is not just somebody's fancy. Having said that, I do not know whether the Cathaoirleach has been out to Kerdiffstown House, but there is a lot of land there, so I can understand that. Within the context of Kerdiffstown House, however, it was really not used like that, so it did not make any sense to have it.
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