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2025-09-15
Politician(s) lobbied: Mary Butler (Minister of State), Department of Health; Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Minister), Department of Health
Intent: consideration of mental health services in Budget 2026::removal of all TEVA products related to Israel
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Pre Budget Submission and Urging to Cease Buying of TEVA prodcuts |
2025-05-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Mary Butler (Minister of State), Department of Health; Máire Devine (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pádraig Rice (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; David Cullinane (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Peadar Tóibín (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mark Ward (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Richard Boyd Barrett (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Duncan Smith (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Exemption for mental health nurses from pay and numbers strategyRaise Concerns re CAMHS
Methods: Email, Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | As you are aware the HSE imposed an embargo on recruitment in November 2023 which remained in place until July 2024. Some services were exempt from the embargo |
| — | for example disability services and several departments in the general services. The PNA strongly urged the HSE to exempt mental health services from the embargo taking into consideration the magnitude of the staffing crisis in the services and the impact on patients |
| — | families |
| — | and the wider community. |
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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| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | 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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| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | 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
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | 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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| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | 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
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | 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
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | 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
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | 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
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | 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 |