Intent: Highlight opportunities to strengthen the Coru Standards and Criteria for Counsellors and Psychotherapists
Details: Coru - Publication of the Standards and Criteria for Counsellors and Psychotherapists by the Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registration Board
Joint letter to the Oireachtas Committee on Health highlighting opportunities to strengthen the Coru Standards and Criteria for Counsellors and Psychotherapists. Communicating our support for the establishment of a joint working group comprising CORU, national representative organisations, academic institutions, service users, and other relevant stakeholders. - Letter
Intent: To outline to Oireachtas members the funding allocated under the National Breeding Services Grant Scheme to their county and the benefits of the scheme.
Email sent to Oireachtas members in outlining the funding allocated under the National Breeding Services Grant Scheme to organisations/shows in their area. - Email
Intent: To persuade senators to seek to amend the Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025
Details: Made proposals as to how the Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025 might be amended to render it compliant with Directive 2006/115/EC.
Intent: To highlight that Ireland currently has approximately 700,000 smokers and 350,000 adult vapers, over half of whom have stopped smoking entirely. This transition away from cigarettes represents a significant public health gain. The Department of Health’s own data indicates that vapers are substantially more likely to quit smoking than users of Nicotine Replacement Therapy.
Details: The Reduced Risk Products Association issued a written update to all Senators ahead of the Public Health (Single-Use Vapes) Bill 2025 Seanad Second Stage debate. The RRPA recognises the intent behind the Bill and supports its focus on addressing environmental concerns and limiting youth access to di, ...
The written communication referenced that at a time when smoking continues to claim approximately 100 lives every week, preserving pathways away from cigarettes remains critical. The role of flavours for adult vapers is central to this. - Email
Intent: The correspondence referenced European analysis suggesting a substantial proportion of vaping products circulating within the EU may be entering through irregular or illegal channels. It warned that weak enforcement, cross-border purchasing and online sales create risks for youth access, tax compliance and consumer safety. The RRPA argued that further restrictions without stronger enforcement could expand black market activity and undermine legitimate retail trade.
Details: The Reduced Risk Products Association issued correspondence to all TDs and Senators highlighting concerns about enforcement capacity within Ireland’s vaping sector. The communication stressed that the effectiveness of any regulatory framework will depend not on legislative intent alone, but on robus, ...
The RRPA called for a strengthened enforcement package including increased inspection resources, annual enforcement reporting, tax-stamp or digital traceability systems, stronger controls on online and cross-border sales, and targeted sanctions against repeat offenders. The communication argued that youth protection and public health depend on controlling illegal supply chains and ensuring compliant retailers are supported rather than undermined. - Email
Intent: To raise awareness of the high level of unregulated digital unhealthy food marketing that children are exposed to online, to the detriment of their health.::To secure support for greater regulation of digital food marketing. ::To secure attendance to a meeting of the Oireachtas Heart and Stroke group.
Details: Oireachtas Heart and Stroke Group- Unregulated Junk Food Marketing
Intent: Sharing the findings of the Neurological Alliance of Ireland Report Towards an Equitable Integrated Neurology Service for Ireland. The report recommendations are based on a national survey of neurology centers and lived experience focus groups across Ireland and highlight the need to provide equitable access to neurology across the hospital network, address staffing shortages across neurology services and develop neurorehabilitation and long term supports in the community.
Details: Access to Neurology Services across Ireland
Email invite sent to public representatives to invite them to AV room presentation - EmailEmail invite sent to public representatives to invite them to themeeting of the cross-party group - EmailHeld a meeting of a cross-party group on April 22 sharing the findings of the Neurological Alliance of Ireland Report Towards an Equitable Integrated Neurology Service for Ireland. - Meeting
Intent: Raise awareness of the impact of cancer in each constituency across Ireland::Seek support from Oireachtas members for improved services for people impacted by cancer
Intent: To update Oireachtas members and MEPs on business at Shannon Airport Group, its strategic importance for Ireland and to continue to advocate for the Group's continued development.
Letter issued to the following; Cynthia Ní Mhurchú, Holly Cairns, Roderic O'Gorman, Peter Burke,Mary Butler, Thomas Byrne, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Marian Harkin, James Browne, Helen McEntee, Dara Calleary, Jennifer Murnane O'Connor, Timmy Dooley, Simon Harris, Patrick O'Donovan, Norma Foley, Micheál Martin - LetterMeeting on 9th March of the Shannon Airport Oireachtas Group (Cathal Crowe, Martin Conway, Maurice Quinlivan, Joe Cooney, Donna McGettigan, Louis O'Hara - Meeting
