Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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492. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of registered charities by county, type, sector and service; the number pending registration by county, type, sector and service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35456/17]

Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael)
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The Charities Regulatory Authority ('Charities Regulator') was established on 16 October 2014 pursuant to the Charities Act 2009. It is Ireland's statutory regulator for charitable organisations and is an independent regulatory agency under the aegis of my Department. Its mission is to regulate the charity sector in the public interest to ensure compliance with the law and to support best practice in the governance, management and administration of charities. I am advised by the Charities Regulatory Authority that the total number of Registered Charities in Ireland is 8,793, which represents an increase of 790 since 1 January 2017.

Based on the principal address provided by the charity the breakdown by county is:

The Charities Regulatory Authority does not define the nature of service or sector but authorises charities for particular charitable purposes. These purposes are outlined in the Charities Act 2009. Charities can have more than one charitable purpose. The following table below provides a breakdown (by county) of charities (by number of charitable purposes).

In the 7,374 cases where a charity has selected a single charitable purpose this is provided in the following table by county:

I am advised that the Charities Regulatory Authority is not in a position to breakdown applications pending for charitable status in the same way as those which are provided in the Public Register of Charities.

However in overall terms there are a total of 240 applications being processed by case officers and a total of 242 complete applications awaiting assignment to case officers. There are a further 749 applications on behalf of primary or post primary schools which are being processed.