Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 November 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Exceptional Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Francis Doherty:
The direction I hoped to take the organisation in was to move away from what was effectively keeping people in emergency accommodation for very significant periods of time, which was not value for money for the State and was not delivering good outcomes for the individuals. It was to focus on delivery of housing over homeless services.