Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)

I asked this Taoiseach about this legislation, the Charities Regulation Bill, with the question I asked him in 1999 about being a beneficiary of gifts etc. I asked then and repeatedly since I was elected to this House because the 1990 Costello report indicated there was a need for reform of charities. Some 127 bodies benefiting from charitable status were not in the public domain at the time. Is this not an urgent matter? Can we have a date for publication of the Bill? The report was published a long time ago.

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