[1] She attended the fourth biennial conference of the international office of consumers' unions in Israel in June 1966.
This resulted in the decision that Ireland needed a group to concentrate on consumer rights and that this fell outside the remit of the IHA.
To start this new group, the IHA convened a meeting of all interested parties on 7 September 1966 in Shelbourne Hotel.
Taking on this, Rooney presided over a meeting of numerous Irish women's groups on 30 January 1968 in the Central Hotel, Dublin.
On the day after her death, proposals were submitted to the Irish government by the national consumer advisory council that incorporated many of the ideals she had advocated for throughout her life.