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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: We can look at youth centres and community structures across the country. This is the spending of public money and it is governed by volunteers we are not providing sufficient resources to. These are the charities Ms Delaney and her colleagues regulate.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I understand exactly where Deputy McAuliffe was going. He focused on the ones with very few resources. What is the profile of the ones that are at the very top? What percentage has significant resources?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)

Mairead Farrell: All right. Under the 2009 Act, the regulator is required to ensure and monitor compliance by charitable organisations and to carry out investigations in accordance with the Act. Does that apply to all companies with a charitable ownership structure?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Some of the 11,000-odd charities are schools and sporting clubs and some charities are public services that, in other jurisdictions, would be public services rather than charities providing services to the public. One of the biggest responsibilities of the Charities Regulator is to make sure the public has trust in the other cohort of more recognised charities, if you like. There have been...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Okay. The Department would have had to have provided funding. Homelessness is an escalating problem. I remember the first time I raised the issue of a family sleeping in a car. It was ten years ago. It was 2014 and that kind of thing was unheard of before that. There would have been a cohort of people who would have been rough sleeping who would have had complex issues. It now...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: On the Department and the Peter McVerry Trust, the Department would have had to provide it with funding or it would have got funding through the Dublin Region Homeless Executive. It possibly got funding from other local authorities as well. As the local authority in Kildare partners with the Peter McVerry Trust with regard to one of the homeless facilities, there is a direct relationship...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)

Ms Madeleine Delaney: No, I do not think so. Where it is relevant is when we did become aware of it, we had less of a concern about the assets and the services than we would have had if there was not a funder such as the Department or the Dublin Region Homeless Executive in there. We might have had to look to our powers under section 74 and see whether we needed to intervene to protect...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)

Ms Madeleine Delaney: No, we do not.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)

Ms Madeleine Delaney: They are appointed by the Minister for a five-year term. Some may be reappointed, some are not. The normal process is run through publicjobs.ie to identify candidates. We might have two or three coming off the board in any one year.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)

Ms Madeleine Delaney: In theory, they could.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)

Ms Madeleine Delaney: The 15 that I referenced in my opening statement concerned charities which did not engage with us voluntarily to provide information so that we could assess what was going on and then engage with them to resolve whatever the issue was. Those are the instances where we have invoked our statutory power to require them to produce the information and if they do not, there...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)

Ms Madeleine Delaney: No, as I say, it is the rare occasion when we feel the situation warrants appointing inspectors, which is a more public-facing and formal aspect of the work. We engage an external party as well. All of the other work is done internally on a one-to-one basis with charities and it can be quite intensive.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)

Ms Madeleine Delaney: We did not use the information. We were obviously aware of the organisation and it might have mined some of our information for its work. Benefacts covered the charity and the not-for-profit sectors. Obviously we are just one subset of that and we never used Benefacts ourselves.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)

Mr. Jake Ryan: I thank the Chair. I understand the Department of Taoiseach is looking at national funding platform at the moment. We are continuing to engage and support it with that.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)

Mr. Jake Ryan: Not as far as I know.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Charities Regulatory Authority (17 Oct 2024)

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...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Which body showed non-compliance with procurement rules?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2024)

Ms Colette Drinan: The amount that was disclosed was €648,000 compared to the previous year when it was €1.2 million. There is, therefore, a downward trend. Waterford and Wexford ETB developed a corporate procurement plan in 2024 and states that it expects improvements in this space.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2024)

Ms Colette Drinan: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2024)

Mairead Farrell: One of them relates to bogus self-employment.