Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

A number of things cropped up in the earlier discussions that I wish to go back over. There are quite a number of small charities where there is an overhead to have an audit, and yet they are very small organisations and there are multiple charities in the same sector. That can be seen in the list of charities and their functions. Is consolidation discouraged, or if a body comes along and meets the criteria, is it automatically granted charitable status?