Voluntary Sector
Dail Éireann — 2022-02-17
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Joe O'Brien (GP), Dublin Fingal

There was value in what Benefacts did but we have to be cognisant of the taxpayers' money. There was a business case made in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and it did not justify continuing the funding, sadly. The data on the Benefacts database are publicly available from the organisations listed on it. Obviously, there was a value to having data collated in one location but those data are still available from the organisations included on the database.
We are developing an initiative separate from that of Benefacts. It will be a bigger project and take time. My hope is that it will have live information on grant-approved bodies that the State supports, if we decide to go down that route.

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Sitting date: 2022-02-17