The
Charities Bill 2007 was published on 16th
April and presented to the Dáil on 24th April.
The Second Stage of the Bill was completed in
the Dáil on 15th November 2007. It is hoped that
Committee Stage will be taken early in 2008.
Key Policy Reform Issues
The charities
sector in Ireland is unregulated
This
effectively means that there is no body
which has:
the
specific aim of supervising the
sector
the
statutory powers to either maintain
a register of charities or to
subject the sector to regulatory
scrutiny
There is
therefore no such thing as a registered
charity in Ireland at present
There is no
statutory definition of what a "charity"
is
