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

Joe Flaherty: I thank the witnesses for being here. I commend them on taking on a very difficult challenge. Much of what we say here today does not reflect on the witnesses but what went before them. I ask them to help me to get some sense around some of the figures. We have a briefing document and the opening statement. This says that the trust's services are supporting 714 adults, etc. When I total...

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

Joe Flaherty: Would it be maxed out at about 2,500?

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

Joe Flaherty: For the purpose of this, if I go with what was on the opening statement, it is 2,707 people and a budget of €60 million. It is costing €22,000 per person to run the service. To give a comparable example of a local authority, I would say that what the trust has to do is comparable with County Longford. It has a population of 40,000 and, between revenue and capital a budget of...

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

Joe Flaherty: So there 1,000 such properties.

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

Joe Flaherty: Are they individual units as opposed to an apartment development?

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

Joe Flaherty: Let us look at what I will call the cavalier period. Were we dealing with a small cohort of developers who came to the previous regime and dealing with them and doing deals? As the witnesses have forensically examined this, did they see the same names come up repeatedly?

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

Joe Flaherty: Was it five or six developers?

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

Joe Flaherty: Yes. The trust needs to know that figure. We challenge local authorities when they are in here to know their vacancy rates. Surely if the trust manages 1,000 properties and multiples of that in terms of units then the trust's officials should be able to come in here and tell us the vacancy rates. Finally, the trust provides support for an IPAS centre in Longford. How much does the...

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

Joe Flaherty: Is that €960,000 per annum, yes?

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

Joe Flaherty: I would appreciate if Mr. O'Brien could tell us the vacancy rate before the close of the meeting.

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

Joe Flaherty: We will take the cost up with the Department but it seems to be a shocking figure. Can Mr. O'Brien tell me what is the total value of the asset register now that the trust has sweated it?

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

Joe Flaherty: Yes. On the unencumbered properties we are talking 27 properties and possibly another 33 coming. Do unencumbered properties make up 50% of the total properties that belong to the trust? What percentage are unencumbered properties?

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

Joe Flaherty: Is it a very small percentage?

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

Joe Flaherty: All told, how many units?

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

Joe Flaherty: How many of the trust's units are vacant at the moment?

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

Joe Flaherty: The DRHE is the largest revenue funder for the Peter McVerry Trust in terms of homeless services and housing first. There are 1,458 beds. How much does that cost?