Paul Donnelly (Dublin West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the fact that it is coming in the near future. I hope that is, as the Minister of State says, the very near future. This is one of those extremely important pieces of legislation. We spent a lot of time at the committee on pre-legislative scrutiny. It was really interesting. It was one of the more interesting committees I have been involved in because there was some brilliant collaboration between all the parties and between the Charities Regulator as well in terms of trying to get this right. That is the important thing. The reason it is important to get it right is because the reputation of charities is extremely important. Some have gone through some difficulties in recent years and it has damaged the reputation of charities but they do incredible work on the ground. They do everything from health to drug support, rehabilitation and housing. There is such a wide variety of work charities do and it is so important. We need to get this right. Even if it took a little longer, that would be fine. Once we get this right, we need to get it across the line because it is an extremely important sector.

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