The National Community Care Network (NCCN) has become the latest member of the Alliance for Insurance Reform.
NCCN represents and supports home care providers in the not-for-profit and social enterprise sectors - and is funded predominantly by the HSE.
Fiacre Hensey, CEO of the National Community Care Network said by joining the Alliance for Insurance Reform, the organisation hopes to add strength to the campaign to effect a major review and overhaul of insurance in Ireland.
"While securing competitively priced insurance had already become an issue for the home care sector pre-Covid, the introduction of exclusion clauses specifically for Covid cover has threatened the survival of home care providers," Mr Hensey said.
"Government needs to act to prevent the collapse of this critical social service," he added.
NCCN has 20 members whose primary role is the delivery of quality home care to older people in the community, with some members also operating day centres and meals on wheels services.
Its members employ around 3,000 trained carers and deliver some 2,500,000 care hours to 7,000 clients across the country.
Peter Boland, Director of the Alliance for Insurance Reform said they welcome the NCCN to the Alliance, but added that they should not feel the need to join the campaign.
"Insurance should not be on their agenda," he said.
"We call on the Government to urgently accelerate the pace of insurance reform so that NCCN members can focus on doing what they were established to do," he added.
The Alliance now brings together 47 civic and business organisations from across Ireland, representing over 55,000 members, 700,000 employees, 622,000 volunteers and 374,000 students.
