Ms Caroline Casey:

I acknowledge everything Senator Quinn has done for us on a leadership piece. His business was one of our leading companies around the inclusive business model. His leadership attracted further leadership, which is very important and shows the need for role modelling and leadership so I thank him personally.

In respect of crowd sourcing, Mr. O'Hara referred to organisations like Kanchi and other bigger organisations. It is the projects that are much smaller. Stuart McLaughlin's fundit.ie or mycharity.ie are fantastic but changing work in big systems is more difficult from a crowd sourcing perspective for organisations like us.

I thank Senator Conway for his very kind words. I would like to point out that Mr. Whelton is named as one of Forbes' movers and shakers under 30 so let us note that there is a global leader sitting right beside us. In respect of mergers, while the Government is looking at new types of initiatives to fund, it should go to SEI and Ashoka and see what is already going on out there before it funds them. We heard of a new initiative which is pretty much the same as one of our initiatives. We were more than happy to share and could have reduced those costs and ensured the learning was passed on. The Government needs to go to these types of organisations and see what is happening before it funds. A market analysis needs to be carried out prior to funding.