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

Yes, we will take on board. I do not think there will be huge desire to go trawling back through thousands of charities' actions in the past but there is a gap between what comes to the attention of the regulator and what does not. There are significant events that do not come to the regulator's attention that we would like to. It is not every little thing that happens but serious events. There should be a commonsensical feeling from the public in general that this was a significant event and the regulator should have known about it. It is that kind of space. We just want to give better oversight without requiring charities to report every single little thing they might currently consider a significant event. In essence, we have a bit of work to do to hone that down and define what the significant event is.