Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 November 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development

Action Plan for Rural Development: Discussion

9:00 am

Mr. William Parnell:

There is Brickens but there is one in the town too - Mayfield.

Social enterprise is a sector which has never had a proper policy in place. Over the past several months, we have been working on developing a social enterprise policy, as well as working closely with the Social Finance Foundation in researching the sector with a view to developing a government policy. This is an area where there is opportunity to see pilot schemes coming forward. There are pilots out there. Part of the objective must be to ensure these examples of good practice are replicated across the country. This will not be fixed overnight. We need, however, to start the process and change the perception again of social enterprise and what it can achieve.

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