Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 July 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Ivan Cooper:

Locally based community organisations cannot bring the same kind of economies of scale to services. There is a price potentially paid in respect of services offered in communities because voluntary organisations will go the extra mile. They will respond to need, raise additional resources to provide the necessary service and all of that will be brought to bear, whereas the private firm will operate strictly within the resources it secured through the contract.

It is certainly not going to be out fundraising to bring additional resources to bear in relation to the service.