Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

No. 1161B is correspondence from Mr. David Moloney, Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, dated 29 March, providing information requested by the committee regarding the decision to stop funding the Benefacts database.

It concerned the non-profit sector, which is reported to receive €7 billion in public funding each year. The proposed action is to note and publish and request the Department of Rural and Community Development to set out the rationale for its decision not to fund Benefacts. Is that agreed? Agreed. We have also included this matter on the agenda for our meeting with the Department on 19 May. The issue has been flagged by Deputy Catherine Murphy.