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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
Catherine Connolly: In addition, where asylum seekers that are coming in, other asylum seeker cases are not being dealt with, and those who have received status to remain have not been dealt with because they are stuck.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What document is Mr. Confrey referring to?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I thank Ms Martin for all the documentation. I am glad that the Comptroller and Auditor General mentioned Trinity. It decided to consolidate its accounts in the past few years; it is a new step and is an example to other universities. Ms Martin has an extremely important job. The figures she gave in her opening statement are extraordinary, with over 10,000 charities, almost 66,000...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What risks have been identified? What infrastructure and staff are needed?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Catherine Connolly: My question is not of a personal nature at all. Ms Martin is doing a great job and it is brilliant on paper. She identified the necessary full complement but the organisation does not have it. What are the risks associated with no having the full complement of staff? What is the organisation ignoring and what could it do if it had the staff?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Tell me about that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is when somebody has the courage to come forward and contact the regulator.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It takes courage to come forward.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Absolutely.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Is there much effort and energy involved with trying to identify what are serious concerns and what might not be serious concerns?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I see.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Catherine Connolly: There is a system in place.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Would the regulator be able to focus on the foundations if it had more staff? Has it occurred to the witness that the foundations coming under the regulator's remit might be examined?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is of concern to me. As previous speakers indicated, we come across things by chance when somebody is courageous enough to make a complaint and so on. We stumbled on the issue with foundations when we looked at the accounts of third level institutions. We saw how foundations did not come under anybody's remit, really, but they would now come under the regulator's remit. I think of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That was €56 million in a foundation account that was not open for public scrutiny. Would that be of interest to the regulator?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It is an area that needs to be examined proactively.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Catherine Connolly: With regard to the statutory powers, the regulator asks various organisations to give information but does not use those statutory powers in the first instance. How many times did it have to use statutory powers in 2018?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is because organisations did not co-operate.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Will Ms Martin put those 48 occasions in context? How should I interpret the figure of how many times the regulator had to exercise its statutory powers in 2018?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What would have been the total number of cases? Were there hundreds where the office did not have to use its statutory powers?