Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 May 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Photo of Catherine ConnollyCatherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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It refers to Console as a private organisation on one hand. On the other hand, it gets public funds. He says the public funds are limited to certain services. Then it is a charity. We have a charity regulator and a charity authority that is not fully resourced. Perhaps we could get an update on that. We have been here for a year and three months - I know Deputy McDonald has been here for longer - and this comes before us all the time about governance, lack of resources for the authority that should be looking at it, over and over, and we are then left with this. More important, people are left with no jobs.