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Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, but each year the Minister has been increasing the overall output of social housing. Admittedly, last year there were fewer units than the year before but there were still more than in the years before that. Each year, the overall expenditure should increase, whereas the local authorities currently have around €200 million less than what they spent last year. That is a fact,...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Agreements (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 214. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position Ireland will take at Council on 2 October 2025 regarding the signature and provisional application of the proposed amendments to the EU-Morocco Agreement arising from the CJEU rulings regarding Western Sahara; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52759/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 71 of 24 September 2025, if she will re-engage with Bus Éireann for clarification in relation to this route given the information provided in the reply is contrary to the information provided to parents by Bus Éireann (details supplied); and given some children are not receiving school transport...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (2 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 325. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in relation to the school meals scheme, if a special school that has not yet availed of the scheme can apply for funding for snacks and drinks only; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52815/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (1 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 98. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if holders of refugee, subsidiary protection and programme refugee statuses who are applying to access social housing supports are required to show proof of income for the previous 12 months if some of that period was spent in their country of origin; if it is only required to show proof of income from the date they received...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (1 Oct 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 139. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons with status living in IPAS accommodation, by family status, number of adults, and number of children, in tabular form; the length of time a person is permitted to remain in IPAS accommodation after receiving status; the number of people with status who have received a transfer letter in the past 12...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for coming in to the committee. This is an important session. The previous iteration of this committee had tried quite hard to get them and other players in to the committee last year. It is important to understand why we wanted to do that. We took a view as a committee on a cross-party basis that given the severity of what has happened in 2023, it was crucial that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I agree with Mr. O’Brien on that. On that last point, what kinds of extra protections could have been put in place or should now be in place to make it virtually impossible for such behaviour to be repeated?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does Mr. O'Brien think the same level of investment should take place at a Department level? He had considerable experience prior to taking on this role. Does he think there should be the same level of assessment by the Department when assessing the costing gap he spoke about?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, but it sets the rules within which the local authorities award the contracts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: I welcome the fact that Mr. Mulligan has said that going forward the approach will be a "full-cost recovery model", which is very sensible in my view. How many of the current services that the trust is contracted to provide operate under the old deficit funding model or are underfunded? Has Mr. Mulligan a sense of the scale percentage wise of the underfunding of those?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----or service level agreements?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: My next questions are on creditors. I refer to service providers who were not paid from the period of the crisis in 2023. Are there still outstanding creditors who have not been paid? I am not asking for individual creditors to be named. Do our guests have a sense of quantum of that and how that will be resolved, particularly as Mr. O'Brien said that a lot of the actual documentation is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Obviously I am not going to ask for any of the details of that. It would not be appropriate. It would be fair for us to ask, what is the total quantum of money that those creditors claim is owed to them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, that is okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: Has everything else been resolved at this stage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: No, no. I thank Mr. Mulligan for that. One of the concerns many of us have is staff retention. One of the things that many of us experienced at a constituency level in the 18 to 24 months up to the summer of 2023 was already evidence of a high turnover of staff. Some of us thought that was individual projects or services. Of course it was much more systemic. Staff recruitment and...