Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Seanad Public Consultation Committee

Social Entrepreneurship: Discussion

12:10 pm

Photo of Susan O'KeeffeSusan O'Keeffe (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I would like some clarity in respect of the ideal of measuring the social return. One Foundation would have set targets and would have informed BeLonG To that it needed to operate on a nationwide basis and so on. That feels like a project with an end and I cannot quite work out what - with the exception of the change in the language - what is the entrepreneurial element. I refer, of course, to calling it something other than overhead. A project may be set targets and given the funding to achieve them and its progress may be monitored but I cannot identify where the transition to social entrepreneurship occurs. It is not that I do not believe what has been said, it is just that I do not quite get it.

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