Ms Helen Martin:

Those charities would have been taken off the register because they were inactive. They would have come off the charities register automatically by virtue of the Revenue Commissioners removing their charitable tax status. We have 6,500 charities on our register at the moment that are deemed registered charities. They are there because at the time that we were established, they held a charitable tax exemption from Revenue. If they happen to lose it, they get automatically removed from the register.