Intent: Email to Anne Marie Hoey, Chief People Officer for the HSE, inviting her to speak as a panelist at LGBT Ireland's Fifth Annual Pride Healthcare Conference
Details: Invitation to speak at Pride Healthcare Conference
Methods
Email to Anne Marie Hoey, Chief People Officer for the HSE, inviting her to speak as a panelist at LGBT Ireland's Fifth Annual Pride Healthcare Conference - Email
Intent: what is requested was that band 2 become standard payment banding for duration of these extraordinary hikes petrol, diesel costs,the distance bans be suspended, only when crisis ended should they be resumed & recalibrated from date commencing prior to fuel cost increases. eg this would mean nurse traveling in the course of providing essential services to persons in their own homes, currently in band 3, would revert to band 2 immediately, a nurse in band 1 also be placed on band 2 immediately.
Details: Arrangements for Essential Frontline Workers during fuel crisis
Methods
23rd March 2026 - Letter
Intent: Seeking support for workers unable to return to work due to Long Covid
Details: Long Covid - Critical Illness Protocol
Methods
19.03.2026 - letter sent - Seeking support for workers unable to return to work due to Long Covid - Letter
Intent: Engagement between the National Federation of Voluntary Service Providers and the HSE to progress matters of shared importance
Details: Information sharing between the National Federation of Voluntary Service Providers and the HSE
Methods
20/03/26: NFVSP Representatives attended a meeting with Anne Marie Hoey (HSE Chief People Officer). This meeting was held to discuss and progress issues of shared importance between HSE and Disability Service Providers. - Virtual Meeting23/03/26: Letter was sent by Alison Harnett (NFVSP CEO) and Michael Hennessy (NFVSP Chairperson) to Anne O'Connor (HSE CEO) congratulating her on her new role and inviting her to an introductory meeting and general discussion on key strategic priorities facing the disability sector. Meeting was scheduled for 1 May 2026 - Letter
Intent: Update provided on the Healthcare Chaplaincy Board's efforts to meet HSE employment requirements through standards for chaplains, CPD provisions, CPE centre accreditation ad networking for Healthcare Chaplains. Challenges outlined included reduced staffing, unfilled posts, hospitals with minimal or no chaplaincy service and diminishing availability of priests for on-call duties.
Details: Discussions focused on the significant rise in demand for chaplaincy services since COVID-19, with both the increased workload and growing complexity highlighted.
Methods
A meeting took place at the HSE Headquarters in Dublin on 26 November 2025 with Ms Anne Marie Hoey, Chief People Officer, and Dr Philippa Withero Ryan, Assistant National Director, Strategic Workforce Planning and Intelligence - Meeting
Intent: Notifying the HSE that this matter was referred by the INMO and SIPTU as a breach of the Public Service Agreement. Subsequent to that referral, agreement was reached directly between the parties, which was then notified to the Public Sector Oversight Group. Any change or variant to that agreement must be negotiated in the same manner and INMO seeking meeting re same.
Details: Letter re: Hibernia Undergraduate Students – Clinical Placements
Methods
1 x letter Anne Marie Hoey on 24.11.25 - Letter
Intent: Movement on Memo guaranteeing HSCP graduates permanent employment in the HSE
Details: Lobbying on behalf of student membership and non member students in light of recruitment crisis casued by Pay and Numbers strategy of the HSE
Methods
1 letter by President on behalf of Council and members1 letter by student reps on behalf of student membership - Letter
Intent: Secure placements for our student nurses in public hospitals to complete their maternity modules
Details: Correspondence with HSE regarding issue of student placements for our nursing students
Methods
As above some zoom meetings took place to progress the issue and discussions - Virtual MeetingWe had an initial agreement on a placement solution but following correspondence from the HSE we were advised the situation had changed so we engaged in mail and email and zoom interactions - Letter
Intent: To secure clarity about the changes to the student public health nurse rate of pay
Details: Student public health nurse (PHN) pay
Methods
4 follow up emails seeking a response sent on 9th March, 20th March, 15th April, 22nd April 2025 - EmailLetter sent via email on 31st of January 2025 - Letter
Intent: To advise the HSE that Joint Organising Committees (INMO and Forsa) are to be established within each of the 6 Health Regions in order to progress members mandate. Once these are established, there will be further rollout of the Joint Organising Committees at the hospital and IHA level.
Details: The unsafe approach to workforce planning by the HSE nationally resulting in growing health and safety concerns due to inadequate staffing and additional workloads
Methods
Ongoing correspondence re. industrial action action, seeking information re. staffing (e.g. number of agency staff, number of vacancies, etc), and seeking to resolve the issue of staffing deficits - Email