Peter McVerry Trust staff and wages

27-10-2021 3:20am

Its a money train, 75% of the homeless in Ireland repeat homeless those who have been homeless and will continue to become homeless as they are caught in the system with no proper supports for addication or mental health, The Peter McVerry Trust, The DePaul Trust two of the biggest homeless charities in Ireland are also now two of the biggest landlords in the country as well no that they are on the Approved Housing Bodies list and they will continue to expand around the country setting up homeless services and buying up houses and apartments and renting them out.

https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/53ab7-approved-housing-bodies-ahbs/

Mad_maxx · 27-10-2021 8:31am

McVerry is a demagogue of the highest order

Loves to lecture governments about what they should do and well beyond his remit ,let him put his name on a balot paper

elperello · 27-10-2021 12:42pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118078340#Comment_118078340

He's not a demagogue at all.

He has no power but seeks to hold those with power to account.

The name on ballot paper thing is just a regular taunt thrown at people who lobby for sectoral interests.

Water John · 27-10-2021 12:56pm

It's quite clear that there are too many groups running night soup runs for the homeless in Dublin. Homeless people complain of being woken 5/6 times each night by different groups offering soup.

Cluaid and Respond have worked for years putting affordable housing in place all over the country. Not sure why the Peter McVerry Trust is expanding out the country?

Mrs OBumble · 27-10-2021 1:11pm

Does anyone know how Peter McVerry handle tenants who do not pay their (full) rent?

Being on the receiving end of how tenants treat landlords is sometimes an interesting experience for charities.

ShamNNspace · 27-10-2021 3:00pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118079726#Comment_118079726

Kililea is happy with it in Tuam anyways🤔

Thinkingaboutit · 27-10-2021 3:13pm

There was Fr Sean Healy SMA, head of the appropriately named Social Justice Ireland, a lover of holy high taxes, both him and his report producing charidee, but also fancy Mercs, has likely been mentioned. A lot of charidee bosses fancy themselves as Principal Officer or Sec Gen so pay themselves that salary (99k to 200k plus, unctuous faux holiness has its perks) out of mostly taxpayer money supporting a very cookie cooker charity business.

growleaves · 28-10-2021 8:22am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/111935845#Comment_111935845

Some charity workers do do it for nothing.

St Vincent de Paul is a mix of volunteers and paid professionals.

Email the charity concerned and just ask them about their volunteer element?

mariaalice · 28-10-2021 9:41am

Its a very complex issue and anyone with half a brain would know that, in Dublin and probably other urban areas, The famine brought a huge amount of very poor into urban areas the ones who always lived just above starvation, until comparatively recently Ireland was a poor country, why does anyone think joining the British army was so popular in Dublin people has no choice, any jobs for the unskilled such as being a day labour in the docks was very precarious.

A large amount of intergeneration poverty, alcoholism, addictions, mental health issues, borderline disabiliteis.

The closer of long-stay institutions St Brendans in Grangegorman as recently as the 1950s and 1960s 20,000 people were living there let alone all the other long-stay institutions such as doss houses which started out as model lodgings previous eras attempts to solve homelessness.

Different expectations and was of living, from some family history we know a great uncle joined the civil services in the 1930s and live in digs in Dublin all his life even after he retired, accessing housing becoming more complex and the expectations of higher standards.