Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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At the centre of this is a funding mechanism for the homeless services sector that combines a mixture of a deficit funding, where organisations can bid for only a portion of the full cost, and competitive tendering, where there is quite a competitive environment. Would it be fair to say that funding mechanism created an environment where some of the things that transpired were enabled or made possible? They were ultimately the responsibility of the people within the executive who made those decisions, but if a different funding model or a more controlled funding mode had been in place, would it have been more difficult for the kinds of abuses that the two regulators reports have outlined to occur?