Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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160. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the legal options available to the charities regulator to put in place interim arrangements to the board of a charity following a complaint being highlighted; if arrangements are being reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20890/16]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The Charities Regulatory Authority ('Charities Regulator') has the power to appoint additional charitable trustees under Section 43 of the Charities Act 1961 as amended by Section 14 of the 1973 Charities Act.

The Deputy will be aware that I recently signed the Commencement Order to bring Part 4 of the Charities Act 2009 into effect from 5 September 2016. When Part 4 of the Act comes fully into effect on that date, Section 74 of the 2009 Act allows the Regulator to seek a High Court order to suspend, or remove, any charitable trustee or member of staff and also allows the Regulator to seek an order of the court to appoint person or persons it considers appropriate to act as a charity trustee, in addition to, or instead of, existing charitable trustees.