Results 19,221-19,240 of 21,588 for speaker:Denis Naughten
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)
Denis Naughten: The Deputy can go through them and then we will let the Minister of State come in. We can have a further back and forth. There is no difficulty. The Minister of State might bank the questions and then we will come back.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)
Denis Naughten: Does the Deputy have a bit more to contribute?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)
Denis Naughten: That is fine. Perhaps we could break it up and let the Minister of State in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)
Denis Naughten: I want to facilitate discussion on this matter. The whole idea is to try to tease this out. I do not want a complete over-and-back discussion, but I do not want to swamp the Minister of State either.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)
Denis Naughten: I will leave it to the discretion of the Deputy to group some of the points together as best he can. He can then take a break and allow the Minister of State to come in on them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)
Denis Naughten: Yes, I have no problem with that. It is important that all of these questions are asked in order to get some information. We will give Deputy Paul Donnelly a short break to let the Minister of State in, and we can come back to the Deputy afterwards.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)
Denis Naughten: I acknowledge that because sometimes legislation comes before the committee that is effectively set in stone. At the end of the day, we all want legislation that stands the test of time. It is important that it is robust because there are weaknesses within the current regulatory system and we all accept that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)
Denis Naughten: Before the Minister of State comes back on that point, Councillor Laurence Fallon also has raised the issue of door-to-door collections mentioned by Deputy Paul Donnelly in respect of County Roscommon, where we have had a proliferation of them in the past. People have a sticker they circulate through letterboxes with a charity number on it, to give the impression that such organisations are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)
Denis Naughten: Section 39 is the one the Deputy mentioned. It concerned the lack of the commencement of section 39 in the 2009 Act. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)
Denis Naughten: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)
Denis Naughten: The committee might want take that a bit further.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)
Denis Naughten: On the Minister of State's earlier response on door-to-door collections, an issue I have come across in the past and of which all of us have had experience, is that of commercial organisations contacting us about selling advertisements. A prime example of that would be in a school journal. This purports to be of benefit to a particular school where the companies are acting on behalf of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)
Denis Naughten: In many cases, it is the commercial company that approaches the charity. It says it is in the process of producing a calendar, is seeking sponsorship for it, will circulate it in a particular geographic area, would like to have the charity's name associated with it and for that purpose will give the charity a contribution. However, you may find out the proportion of the funds generated...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)
Denis Naughten: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)
Denis Naughten: No, it is the individual.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)
Denis Naughten: For example, let us say the Houses of the Oireachtas were a charity. A company named Paul Donnelly Publications contacts me to say it is circulating a calendar in the Roscommon area next December. It is selling advertising for it and the beneficiary of this is the Houses of the Oireachtas charity. It is selling advertising to me at €100 and clearly giving me the impression the vast...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)
Denis Naughten: -----allegedly being made from that. The difficulty here is it is being sold on the basis the charity is the main beneficiary of it, where in fact the commercial company is getting the vast bulk of the profits from that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)
Denis Naughten: Why is that section not being commenced?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)
Denis Naughten: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (6 Jul 2022)
Denis Naughten: We have all got caught for them.