Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 July 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Charities Regulatory Authority: Chairman-Designate

10:00 am

Mr. Paddy Hopkins:

One of key mandates is to develop such confidence in the sector. When we produce the guidelines and direction for the charities sector and when the charities make their returns to the CRA, the returns will be published on our website. One hopes that will bring about a transparency that may or may not have always been there. Historically, larger charities in particular would always have completed their accounts but sometimes it might have been quite difficult to interpret those accounts and get down to the nitty-gritty of what these accounts were saying. Our website will display transactional-type information as well. I hope that a combination of the guidelines we set out and publishing reports from charities will help and bring about that confidence. It probably will not happen overnight. By adopting the very best practice within our own operation, we will provide an example to charities which we want to comply with best practice.

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