Results 61-80 of 221 for speaker:Aubrey McCarthy
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Aubrey McCarthy: I noticed that the 2023 accounts still have not been finalised.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Aubrey McCarthy: We have been dealing with this for nearly a year so it is surprising that the skates were not put on that. I also noticed that housing first tenancies have fallen from 822 to 699. The emergency homelessness numbers and so forth have gone up, so the crisis is getting worse, yet the number of housing first tenancies has decreased. I am little worried about that because of the wraparound...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Aubrey McCarthy: It was a rabbit warren with a lot of stuff that could not be got to. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Aubrey McCarthy: Okay, I am just a bit conscious of the time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Aubrey McCarthy: Mr. O'Leary mentioned that, in July 2023, AHBRA started a formal investigation of the trust. What prompted that investigation? Was there a whistleblower or what brought it on?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Aubrey McCarthy: Is Ms Tobin confident that happened?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Aubrey McCarthy: The regulator's report highlighted conflicts of interest, governance failures, etc. Has anybody been held to account for that or are we simply moving forward without consequences and hoping everything works well going forward?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Aubrey McCarthy: Is Mr. O'Leary happy that is happening?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Aubrey McCarthy: Have we confidence in the trust going forward? That question is for everyone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Aubrey McCarthy: The confidence is not there yet but we are getting there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Aubrey McCarthy: In late 2023, €15 million was given by the Department to keep the services going. With the same management, system and structure, what accountability measures were put in place to make sure that money was properly managed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
Aubrey McCarthy: One of the key things mentioned today was that the accounts for 2023 had not been filed yet, even after all this debacle. I am involved in various AHBs and if they do not have their accounts in situ, then the funding model is stalled. I am surprised this continued without the accounts being submitted. As Deputy Ó Broin said, alarm bells should have rung when somebody tendered for a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)
Aubrey McCarthy: I thank our guests for being here today. I could not agree more with them on what they have been saying, even about housing, the minimum wage and the cost of living. I am involved in a an LDA project in Bluebell, in a cost-rental housing scenario. We got people in and discovered cost rental is set up such that the people it is meant for cannot afford the rent, based on the wages they are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)
Aubrey McCarthy: On the VAT rate and what Dr. McDonnell has said about it being counterproductive, has research been done on that to show it is?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)
Aubrey McCarthy: Dr. McDonnell is going to get me sacked.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)
Aubrey McCarthy: I thank the witnesses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)
Aubrey McCarthy: I thank the witnesses for being here today so soon after the last visit. Today's focus is very much on affordable housing, but it is important to remember that without service to our zoned land, there is going to be no progress whether that is in private housing, affordable housing, cost-rental or social housing. It is all part of the same system. When the witnesses were here with us...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)
Aubrey McCarthy: It is nearly a year after the numbers were provided.