Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 17 October 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority

9:30 am

Ms Madeleine Delaney:

The 15 that I referenced in my opening statement concerned charities which did not engage with us voluntarily to provide information so that we could assess what was going on and then engage with them to resolve whatever the issue was. Those are the instances where we have invoked our statutory power to require them to produce the information and if they do not, there is a sanction for that. The purpose of illustrating the 15 was to say that most charities do engage and resolve issues. Most of these issues are around governance.