Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 October 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority
9:30 am
Ms Madeleine Delaney:
Without wishing to comment specifically on any particular organisation, one of the issues we have in terms of dealing with everything that comes in is that, as the Charities Regulator, we still only look at what is within our remit, so we look at governance matters. We cannot look at service delivery, contracts, employment issues or anything like that. It is simply where there are governance matters that we can get involved. We have a good relationship with the HSE, with which we have a memorandum of understanding. Typically, if another organisation is looking at something substantive, unless there is a need for us to do something urgent, we will not be in there at the same time because, of course, it is very disruptive to the organisation as well. Without talking about specifics, that is how we would approach matters.