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2024-11-27
Politician(s) lobbied: Emer Higgins (Minister of State), Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Intent: To receive confirmation in writing that the Nursing Home Support Scheme will be granted the requisite budgetary allocation to fund the planned increase to the minimum annual remuneration thresholds for Health Care Assistants
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Relating to the planned increase to the minimum annual remuneration thresholds for Health Care Assistants |
2023-05-24
Politician(s) lobbied: Stephen Donnelly (Minister), Department of Health; Michael McGrath (Minister), Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; Leo Varadkar (Taoiseach), Department of the Taoiseach
Intent: Obligations to serve notice under Section 66 of the Health Act 2007
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Section 66 Notices of Closure of Cork Nursing Homes |
2023-01-19
Politician(s) lobbied: Stephen Donnelly (Minister), Department of Health; Michael McGrath (Minister), Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
Intent: Access of funding under the Fair Deal scheme for the CareChoice Group of nursing homes.
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | In relation to the Fair Deal funding scheme |
| — | CareChoice wrote to Ministers Stephen Donnelly and Michael McGrath requesting funding support for the CareChoice Group of nursing homes under the Fair Deal scheme. A letter was sent to the ministers on behalf of the Chairperson of CareChoice Group. |
2022-09-06
Politician(s) lobbied: Mary Butler (Minister of State), Department of Health
Intent: Access to Psychiatry of Later Life services from the HSE at the CareChoice care home in Swords, Co. Dublin.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | In the matter of access to Psychiatry of Later Life services from the HSE at a care home owned by CareChoice Swords Ltd. in Swords |
| — | Co. Dublin |
| — | CareChoice wrote to the Minister for State in the Department of Health noting that psychiatry services have not been provided by the HSE to the care home since it opened in 2019 and this impacts on new and existing residents |
| — | many of whom cannot afford private psychiatry services and as such puts CareChoice Swords Ltd. at a competitive disadvantage. |
2020-05-22
Politician(s) lobbied: Simon Harris (Minister), Department of Health; Micheál Martin (Taoiseach), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Brendan Smith (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Assistance and support re applications and assistance and support
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | 1. The application for permits pre-Covid 19 outbreak 2. Assistance/support for transport of non-EEA nationals who had been recruited as nurses to CareChoice prior the outbreak but had been unable to travel due to restrictions. 3. Requesting postponement of the HSE recruitment process for nurses employed in our homes during the Covid 19 crisis. |
2018-05-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Jim Daly (Minister of State), Department of Health; Jim Breslin (Secretary General), Department of Health; Simon Harris (Minister), Department of Health
Intent: To outline CareChoices investment commitment in the nursing home sector in the context of discussions with the NTPF regarding future rates.
Methods: Meeting, Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Discussions with policy makers in relation to funding of the nursing home sector. |