Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency Act 2023

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Annual report

33. (1) The chief executive shall, not later than 4 months after the end of each year, prepare and submit to the Minister a report of the activities of the Agency and the performance of its functions during the preceding year.

(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), if, but for this subsection, the first annual report under this section would relate to a period of less than 6 months, the report shall relate to that period and to the year immediately following that period and shall be made as soon as may be, but not later than 6 months after the end of that year.

(3) An annual report shall not be submitted to the Minister unless it has been adopted by the Board.

(4) An annual report shall, in respect of the year to which it relates, include, in addition to the matters specified in sections 31 (3)(a) and 32 (7)—

(a) a general statement of the activities undertaken by the Agency,

(b) particulars in relation to financial statements of the Agency,

(c) a report on the implementation of any policy directives issued by the Minister under section 38 (5), and

(d) such other matters as the chief executive or the Board thinks fit or that the Minister may request the chief executive to include.

(5) Subject to subsection (6), the Minister shall, as soon as practicable after a copy of the annual report is submitted to him or her under subsection (1), cause a copy of it to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas.

(6) The Minister may exclude from the copy of the annual report to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas under subsection (5) any matter that, in his or her opinion, would disclose confidential information.

(7) The chief executive shall ensure that, as soon as practicable after a copy of the annual report is laid before each House of the Oireachtas, the report as laid is published on a website maintained by or on behalf of the Agency or in such other manner as the Minister may specify.