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

Aubrey McCarthy (Independent)
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We have been dealing with this for nearly a year so it is surprising that the skates were not put on that.

I also noticed that housing first tenancies have fallen from 822 to 699. The emergency homelessness numbers and so forth have gone up, so the crisis is getting worse, yet the number of housing first tenancies has decreased. I am little worried about that because of the wraparound supports and so on. How are we safeguarding that?