Mr. Seán Moynihan:

ALONE takes a sort of sectoral approach to change whether in models and scales of services, or in campaigning. For us and other members the coalition is where NGOs get together themselves. The funding of how it is done is among the members. We ultimately come together because we have the connection with the older people. The voice of a lot of the people we represent may not come up through the system, and their needs may not be heard. The Home Care Coalition is self-funding and where we have come together for more than a decade to track, with the Department of Health, so we know this is a vital thing in the gap between the needs of people and their preferences and what was being provided by the State. We have advocated as a group and tried to produce one voice. While we may have slight disagreements, it is where we come together to align, thrash those things out and put forward things that we all agree would make a good system.