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:
No, there was accommodation for about 130 individuals from Dublin and Kildare, but that was a service that was managed and had a budget. That budget was undercosted, as I alluded to earlier. The organisation was losing €1 million a year on the site and the vast majority of that money related to driveways, the cutting of grass and other things-----