Joe O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

We estimate that the middle income category of €25,000 to €250,000 includes 2,500 charities. I take Deputy Conway-Walsh's point about the threshold. As for her broader point about volunteers, I have responsibility for volunteering policy as well and I think that when people think of volunteering, many of them think of the front line and visible volunteers. I am always at pains when I get the opportunity, which I will take now, to thank all the less visible volunteers on boards who do not get seen. We had them very much in mind in this process as well because it is, as Deputy Paul Donnelly said, hard to get people to go on boards and to keep them on boards, and raising that threshold from €10,000 to €25,000 will help people more in reducing the administrative burden. I think the clarification of trustee responsibilities will also help. I know of situations in which people were reluctant to go on boards of charities because they did not know really what it involved and no one could tell them for certain in respect of the liability unless that person was a legal expert. Now, however, we will have clarity as to what those responsibilities are. That is a good thing.

I would be shuffling around bits of paper here for ten minutes telling the committee the different places the Charity Appeals Tribunal can be used more. In essence, there are places and situations at the moment where the only option for a charity or the regulator is to go to court to appeal a decision or an action of one kind or another. We are just trying to reduce that a little in order that it is easier to appeal a decision. I do not have a list of places to hand to the committee. They are scattered throughout the heads of the Bill. We will call that out just for our own information and to make it clearer. We can get back to Deputy Conway-Walsh on that as well.

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