Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 November 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Exceptional Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of John BradyJohn Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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There is, but I will go back to the letters that came in in 2020. Mr. Kelly is saying he has no recollection of those, but two letters did come in from the four other homeless providers in the Dublin region, written by the CEOs, expressing concern about the funding model and the difficulties there. That was on foot of the Dublin housing first project. There was a request for reviews. There were concerns there. There were different pieces of correspondence. It was highlighted as far back as 2020 that there were serious difficulties in terms of the funding model. That was the starting point in terms of the failures at departmental level to pick up on what was going wrong.

I will make another point. Mr. Kelly mentioned that there was-----