Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 November 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority

9:00 am

Ms Helen Martin:

The first thing involves levelling the playing field between unincorporated charities and companies. If we take out schools, around 60% of the charities on the register of charities are companies. We do not have sufficient powers with regard to those charities when it comes to required regulatory action.