Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection
SOLAS: Discussion with Chairman Designate
1:10 pm
Mr. Pat Delaney:
I shall do exactly as suggested in so far as my being chairman allows me to be a front-of-house person. There is work to be done on the branding of the organisation. A very important initial aspect of that will be ensuring that the brand of SOLAS is such that it will be seen as a partner of first choice for all its stakeholders and become the go-to place. Its reputation must be enhanced by the quality of its output, analysis and strategic documents, by what it does on the ground and by the measurement and evaluation that I will certainly ensure will become a very strong part of its work. Every organisation needs to be measured against what it sets out as its targets. It must be determined whether an organisation is meeting its target, the difficulties it has, what it does well, what it does not do so well, whether it needs to improve and the feelings of all its stakeholders. FÁS may not have done so to the extent it might have done. Members may disagree with me on that. My strong desire is that the new organisation will be one of which we can all be proud.