New social enterprises database 'totally separate' from Benefacts

PAC deputy chair Catherine Murphy said the project change 'doesn’t strike me as value for money'. Picture: RollingNews.ie
The head of the body charged with creating a new database of social enterprises has said that project is “totally separate” from Benefacts, the database of non-profits which was terminated last year.
Department of Rural and Community Development secretary general Mary Hurley told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) today that the two projects are “different things”.