Results 15,561-15,580 of 15,725 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin
- 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...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: That was a very low base last year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: Does Mr. Mulligan know how many vacancies there are across the organisation either as a number or a rough percentage of the staff complement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to express a concern which I am our guests are more aware of than I am. Given the very complex needs of the folks that the trust works with in respect of housing first and the very significant level of support required, a very significant level of vacancy in that service in particular would be quite a concern.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: Is that something the trust shares? How is the trust trying to address that in the transfer of housing first to other organisations at a later stage?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: Does Mr. Mulligan have a timeline for when he hopes all 50 actions will be completed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: I join my colleagues in acknowledging the enormously important work done by the Peter McVerry Trust and to pay tribute to all the staff who have had an exceptionally difficult number of years, including those staff who left and those who left who played a role in bringing all this to light. If they had not done that, we would not necessarily be here having this conversation. As a committee,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: Even ones that might be pre-existing tender arrangements-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: I have a comment and two final questions. Our remit is very different from that of the Committee of Public Accounts, especially given its focus on the Accounting Officers and the finances. In fairness, Deputy McAuliffe has a dual role. We spent a lot of time in private session in the previous committee trying to work out our best approach to this. Our big concern is housing and homeless...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: I thank all the witnesses for their opening statements. Most of the public commentary on the crisis in the Peter McVerry Trust has focused on the trust and things that the trust and individuals on the board of the executive did wrong. That is as it should be, but there is a wider context and it is important that this committee examines it. While none of what I am going to say in any way...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: I accept that but it was within a procurement framework set by the Department. The DRHE is not free to operate the procurement in whatever way it wants. The Department sets that framework. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Eoin Ó Broin: Sure, and then it is filtered through the Department into its relationship with the DRHE.