Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 21 November 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority
9:00 am
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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First, I welcome Ms Martin and her team, and I offer them best wishes in their work. I am aware that Ms Martin is bedding down the organisation. I have gone through the opening statement and the corporate plan and have done some research on some of the work done by the Charities Regulator. In her opening statement, Ms Martin referred to a number of "statements of strategy". Initially, for the period of 2016 to 2018 the regulator was bedding down organisational structures, looking at processes and procedures in order to ensure compliance with the code of practice for the governance of State bodies. The next part of the strategy for 2019 to 2021 will be, in Ms Martin's terms, to move "closer to realising our vision of a vibrant trusted charity sector [and] ... strengthening public trust and confidence in charities". On that second piece of the strategy from 2019 to 2021, will Ms Martin clarify what the Charities Regulator will be looking at specifically?