Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 October 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority
9:30 am
Ms Madeleine Delaney:
The Chair has hit on the important point of information there. A difference in the other jurisdictions that is of advantage to them is that they supervise all of the charities on their register that apply through them. Therefore, the quality of the information and making sure their governance documents are what is required are all in a better position than it is for us. We are on the back foot in respect of making sure that we have all the information that we need but also that the public should have. That is one thing. The powers are quite similar, with just small differences. In England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, they each have a power to appoint somebody - they call it an interim manager - to go in to an organisation on a short-term basis. That is something they can do themselves. We have to apply to the High Court for that. There is nothing to say we could not go in on an urgent injunctive basis but that is quite a difference between the two.
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