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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)
James O'Connor: I welcome all the witnesses. The Peter McVerry Trust is in the headlines for the wrong reasons, which has prompted a lot of questions that need to be answered around what merits the Charities Regulator getting involved to undertake investigative work. Under Part IV of the Charities Act 2009, the Charities Regulator has the power to appoint investigators to investigate the affairs of any...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)
James O'Connor: In how many instances has that happened? As the Peter McVerry Trust grew between 2011 and 2022, I understand that it took over nine separate charities. The trust’s remit is supposed to be housing and homelessness, but the purpose of one of those charities was the advancement of religion, which is not one of the trust’s charitable purposes. The trust is in receipt of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)
James O'Connor: An approximate figure is okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)
James O'Connor: The reason I ask is there is a lot of grime on the window of the immigrant investor programme, IIP, which I am concerned about. Nobody is quite sure why it was shut down. A number of charities were involved in the process of obtaining it. There are multiple reasons - "issues occurred" and pressure from the European Commission and other aspects at an international level but looking at the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)
James O'Connor: Will Ms Delaney elaborate on that? She said it was not something the Charities Regulator was specifically looking at.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)
James O'Connor: I want to be careful; I am not from a legal profession but I want to ask the question because it is relevant. Is Ms Delaney aware of many charitable bodies accountable to the Charities Regulator from an inspection point of view that left that structure and went into a company limited by guarantee structure or out of the charity structure to obtain funds from the IIP?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)
James O'Connor: Ms Delaney is not aware of that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)
James O'Connor: I encourage Ms Delaney to do some digging. It has been brought to my attention as a Member of the Oireachtas. I will not bring it up but it has crossed my desk.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)
James O'Connor: I will.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)
James O'Connor: I will defer to the second round because I am interested some of the responses. Is that okay, Chairperson?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: No, I was just agreeing to that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: One of them relates to bogus self-employment.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: I would be interested because, obviously, it is really important that RTÉ comes under the remit of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General. How long in general would it take for a body to come under its remit? How long does that take on the Comptroller and Auditor General's side? Is it just simply that we are waiting on the Bill? The other thing that stood out to me with...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: Yes, it is agreed. Realistically, it will probably be a very long meeting because there is a very large amount to go through but it is very important so it is absolutely agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: Agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: May I come in on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: Will we still be here?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: Is there any possibility of getting the board in at another time that week? I am just concerned. We obviously have no idea when the election will be called but that is the week the Finance Bill is due to be discussed in the finance committee and the election could potentially be called the following week. If this has been outstanding for this long and if it is such an issue of public...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: Could we try?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2024)
Mairead Farrell: I absolutely agree. It is important.