Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 October 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Corporate Social Responsibility Stakeholder Forum: Discussion

Ms Catherine Heaney:

We serve only to promote corporate social responsibility, CSR, as a practice in the hope people will engage with it. We do not have an oversight or regulatory function. It goes back to my point about how CSR is not a panacea or a replacement for public policy. We promote examples of companies that are meeting or exceeding the norm in terms of what is required of them under law. That is what CSR is about, rather than having a regulatory function.