Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 December 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

General Scheme of the Co-operative Societies Bill 2022: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment

Mr. John Shine:

I apologise if I was not clear. What I was trying to say was that the relevant registrar at the moment is the Registry of Friendly Societies. Into the future the registrar of co-operatives will be similar in that it will be a separate statutory office but will be a sibling of the CRO in the sense that it will be the same physical building and the same individual will be the registrar, similar to the way it is at the moment. There will be a separate registrar function, but the individual will be the same.