Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 November 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Exceptional Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion

2:00 am

Ms Madeleine Delaney:

There were no financial issues in Inner City Helping Homeless. It was simply that all of the trustees resigned and they were not able to replace all the trustees. Hence my answer earlier about the importance of keeping trustees there to try to work through the issues. Solicitors for one trustee who was remaining had indicated that they were going to apply to the High Court themselves to appoint and inspector and then ultimately wind it down. They were serving vulnerable service users as well. In order to preserve those services and keep it going, we though applying for a provisional liquidator to step in on an emergency basis and then a liquidator in the long term to transfer the services and the assets to another charity was the most orderly way to go about it.

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