Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 17 October 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority

9:30 am

Ms Madeleine Delaney:

This is something that we need to do. We will work more closely with the Approving Housing Bodies Regulator on this because it is obviously aware of the connection. We need to start identifying the different cohorts and the AHBR will have more information than we do. That will help us identify ones where maybe we can look at them and check the status of their various governing documents and all of that. However, it may be quite tenuous in some cases because some of them are very old, loose and tenuous. A certain amount of consolidation has occurred, which is probably a good thing, whereby some of the smaller, older entities, with just maybe a few volunteers running them, merging or transferring the property to another approved housing body and that is probably a good thing because, again, when we talk about the governance and the need for trustees to be aware of their obligations, it is as much for their protection as for the good running because they are vulnerable.