Psychiatric Nurses Association

Total Lobbying Efforts: 16

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2024-11-25
Politician(s) lobbied: Annie Hoey (Senator), Seanad; Aisling Dolan (Senator), Seanad; Martin Conway (Senator), Seanad; Frances Black (Senator), Seanad; Mark Ward (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Lahart (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Gino Kenny (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Neasa Hourigan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Colm Burke (Minister of State), Department of Health; Duncan Smith (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Bríd Smith (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; David Cullinane (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Róisín Shorthall (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Stephen Donnelly (Minister), Department of Health; Peadar Tóibín (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Richard Boyd Barrett (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Holly Cairns (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ivana Bacik (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mary Lou McDonald (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Roderic O'Gorman (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Micheál Martin (Taoiseach), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: due to the scale of the psychiatric nursing staffing crisis, mental health services must be exempt from the Pay and Numbers Strategy. We believe that mental health services have been largely abandoned and excluded from staffing increases over the last five years. This view is supported by the fact that of the additional 23,000 staff employed in the HSE between 2019-2024, psychiatric nurses equated to less than 1% of these
Methods: Email
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concerns for the future of mental health services in Ireland and the issues that will require the urgent and committed attention for any incoming government.
2023-08-23
Politician(s) lobbied: Stephen Donnelly (Minister), Department of Health
Intent: the opportunity to meet with Mr Donnelly at the earliest opportunity to discuss these ongoing pressures on our mental health services (including CAMHS) and the need to find sustainable responses to the recruitment and retention of psychiatric nurses.
Methods: Letter
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Closure of 16-bed Sub-Acute Unit at St James’s Hospital Psychiatric Unit
2023-05-19
Politician(s) lobbied: Anne Rabbitte (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Bríd Smith (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mick Barry (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Thomas Pringle (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Joan Collins (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Marian Harkin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Beds remaining open in Ballinasloe and that paramedics have the right to join the union of their choice
Methods: Letter
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Closure of Beds Ballinasloe and Paramedic Union Recognition
2023-01-04
Politician(s) lobbied: Peadar Tóibín (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Lahart (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Róisín Shorthall (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Catherine Murphy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mary Lou McDonald (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ivana Bacik (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mark Ward (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Gino Kenny (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Neasa Hourigan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Duncan Smith (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Bríd Smith (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; David Cullinane (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: mental health services funding
Methods: Letter
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That the funds from the sale of the vacated Dundrum site would be ringfenced and re-invested in the Mental Health Services.
2022-09-13
Politician(s) lobbied: Stephen Donnelly (Minister), Department of Health; Mary Butler (Minister of State), Department of Health
Intent: to address this proposed closure at Linn Dara and its serious consequences for CAMHS and service users and to initiate both a short-term strategy to reopen the beds in the coming weeks and also to examine a long-term strategy to resolve the staffing issues into the future to mitigate a repeat of this unacceptable closure of services.
Methods: Letter
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Staffing Crisis and Closure of Linn Dara CAMHS services
2021-01-18
Politician(s) lobbied: Stephen Donnelly (Minister), Department of Health; Richard Boyd Barrett (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ruth Coppinger (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Bríd Smith (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mick Barry (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: That paramedics be allowed to join PNA as the union of their choice
Methods: Email
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Campaign to allow Paramedics to Join the Union of their choice
2020-09-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Simon Harris (Minister), Department of Health; Stephen Donnelly (Minister), Department of Health; Paschal Donohoe (Minister), Department of Finance; Heather Humphreys (Minister), Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation; Richard Bruton (Minister), Department of Environment, Climate and Communications; Simon Coveney (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mary Lou McDonald (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pat Buckley (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Improvements in MHS as increased demand expected due to Covid 19, Resolution of NASRA dispute, PNA nominee on DOH Expert Review Group
Methods: Letter
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Mental Health Services
2020-05-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Mary Lou McDonald (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mick Barry (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pearse Doherty (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Willie O'Dea (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Brian Leddin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Matt Carthy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; James Collins (Councillor), Limerick City and County Council; Paul Donnelly (Councillor), Fingal County Council; David Cullinane (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Maurice Quinlivan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jackie Cahill (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Micheál Martin (Taoiseach), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Michael Lowry (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (Councillor), Carlow County Council; Adrienne Wallace (Councillor), Carlow County Council; Mairéad Farrell (Councillor), Galway City Council; Catherine Connolly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pádraig Ó Céidigh (Senator), Seanad; Noel Grealish (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Thomas Pringle (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: That Ambulance Paramedics can join the PNA which is the union of their choice
Methods: Meeting
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Ambulance Paramedics (NASRA) who want to join the union of their choice (PNA) have had this choice taken from them by their employer who has ordered HSE payroll to cease deductions tp the PNA at source
2020-01-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Barry Cowen (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: RIght of Ambulance Personnel to join union of their choice
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Meeting with Barry Cowen
2019-09-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Unknown
Intent: Right to Choose Union of Own Choice for Ambulance Personnel rather than be forced to join union approved by employer
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Trade Union Membership Rights