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

Perhaps that explains it.

Category C comprises correspondence from and relating to private individuals and any other correspondence. There are two items, which we will take together. No. 1574C is from Deputy Hourigan, dated 11 November 2022, and No. 1577C is from Deputy Carroll MacNeill, dated 15 November 2022. Both items concern the Charities Regulator and the alleged operation of a body as a charity that has not been registered as such. I understand the same matter was raised at a meeting of the previous Committee of Public Accounts in November 2019.

I ask members to keep in mind the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise, or make charges against a person outside the Houses or an official either by name or in such a way as to make him or her identifiable. For the committee's information, Deputy Catherine Murphy has advised that she submitted parliamentary questions on foot of similar correspondence she received. We will arrange to circulate the responses following the meeting. I will now open the discussion to the floor.