Lobbying Records (Page 1 of 24)
Polio Survivors Ireland
2025-12-19
Intent: Seeking greater transparency on the impact of the Pay and Numbers strategy on staffing quotas and waiting lists for community health services
Details: Wrote to the Chair of the Health Committee to highlight issues regarding Primary Care staffing and HSE Pay and Numbers Strategy
Officials: Pádraig Rice
Methods: Follow up to briefing held in AV room at Leinster House which highlighted the challenges polio survivors have in accessing health services - Email
Drury
2025-11-03
Intent: To secure meetings with Oireachtas members to highlight the role of insourcing and its contribution in reducing waiting lists.
Details: Request for meeting to discuss the role of insourcing in reducing waiting lists in the health service.
Officials: Ken O'Flynn, Peter Roche, Maria Byrne, Manus Boyle, David Cullinane, Conor Sheehan, Richard O'Donoghue, Pádraig Rice, ...
Methods: Email, Meeting, Phone call
The Union of Students in Ireland
2025-10-28
Intent: Permanent €1000 reduction in fees for third level students.
Details: Reduction of fees for third level students
Officials: James Lawless, Donna McGettigan, Pearse Doherty, Darren O'Rourke, Sorca Clarke, Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire, Rose Conway-Walsh, Seán Crowe, ...
Methods: Contact with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science about the fee reduction - Email, Thanking Ministers who spoke in favour of a fee reduction - Email
Age Action
Current/Former DPOWhat is lobbying? (FAQ)2025-10-28
Intent: That HIQA be brought before the Health Committee
Details: Failures in care of older people in long term residential care
Officials: Pádraig Rice, Michael Cahill, Martin Daly, Pádraig O'Sullivan, Colm Burke, Peter Roche, Marie Sherlock, Sorca Clarke, ...
Methods: To request the Health Committee to invite HIQA to discuss the issues arising from the RTE Investigates programme on failures in care of older people in long term residential care - Email
Epilepsy Ireland
2025-09-22
Intent: For the Deputies to submit PQs to gain further information on funding, waiting lists, capacity, Epilepsy Monitoring Unit wait times etc.
Details: Seeking Deputies submit parliamentary questions related to Ireland's Neurosurgery service
Officials: David Cullinane, Marie Sherlock, Pádraig Rice
Methods: Email
Epilepsy Ireland
2025-09-22
Intent: For the Deputies to support our ongoing campaign to add epilepsy to the CDMP and promote increased epilepsy management at community level.
Details: Met local TDs at an Epilepsy Ireland event highlighting why epilepsy should be added to the HSE's Chronic Disease Mangement Programme (CDMP)
Officials: Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire, Pádraig O'Sullivan, Pádraig Rice, Eoghan Kenny
Methods: Event / Reception
Vulcan Consulting Limited
2025-09-21
Intent: To raise the profile of rare disease policy amongst Irish political stakeholders & seek updates on a range of rare disease policy matters.
Details: Rare Disease Policy in Ireland
Officials: Pádraig O'Sullivan, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Pádraig Rice, Colm Burke, David Cullinane, Michael Cahill, Sorca Clarke, Martin Daly, ...
Methods: Email, Phone call, Submission
Irish Medical Organisation
2025-09-21
Intent: That only professions who have statutory regulation should be designated as Mental Health Professions.The provisions under Part 3 Chapter 3 - Consent to Treatment (Involuntary Admissions) of the Bill, should be deleted. The criteria for involuntary admission and treatment should be the same and thus the admission order should become an admission and treatment order. That Risk criteria in Section 12 (1) (a) should be removed. ::the requirement for a psychosocial assessment should be removed from Section 22 and Sections 37. Sections 179 & 181 regarding regulations of care plans should be removed from the legislation. The Mental Health Commission instead should be tasked with developing clinical guidelines based on international best evidence. the act should establish a 24 hour Administration office under the HSE that is responsible for adminstrative functions.::When inspecting Mental Health Services, the Mental Health Commission should assess the budget allocation received by that ser
Details: Mental Health Bill
Officials: Pádraig Rice, Colm Burke, Martin Daly, Michael Cahill, Sorca Clarke, David Cullinane, Pádraig O'Sullivan, Marie Sherlock, ...
Methods: Meeting with TD Martin Daly and Meeting with Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health - Meeting, Submission to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health - Submission
Rare Diseases Ireland
2025-09-20
Intent: Inclusion of rare disease topics on schedule for Health Committee meetings.
Details: Request to prioritise rare diseases for discussion at Health Committee meetings
Officials: Nicole Ryan, Teresa Costello, Tom Clonan, Maria Byrne, Manus Boyle, Marie Sherlock, Peter Roche, Pádraig O'Sullivan, ...
Methods: Email to members of Health Committee asking them to ensure that rare diseases are included in meeting schedules for the Committee. - Email
National Infertility Support and Information Group
Current/Former DPOWhat is lobbying? (FAQ)2025-09-20
Intent: To secure future funding for the NISIG Helpline, to maintain this crucial support for those in need of assistance particularly at times of great emotional stress.::NISIG are calling for a wider and more sufficiently funded public funding system for IVF including significantly increased funding for the fertility hubs nationwide::NISIG asks that eligibility and criteria for public funding for IVF are broad, equitable, inclusive and reflective of those who seek infertility treatment. This includes a review of the current criteria based on data from the last 2 years, along with areas such as funding for patients requiring PGT-M and PGT-SR, and additional cycles of IVF for couples with no children. Donor conception must be ready to roll out in conjunction with the establishment of the new Regulatory Authority. ::There is no provision for specific support by the State health services for those going through fertility treatment and NISIG receives no Government funding for the vital support s
Details: NISIG emailed members of the Oireachtas our 2026 pre-budget submission. Key asks in the pre-budget submission included funding our NISIG Helpline, a request for a wider and more sufficiently funded public funded IVF scheme. Also, that eligibility and criteria be broad, equitable, inclusive and refle, ...
Officials: Pádraig Rice, Michael Cahill, Sorca Clarke, Martin Daly, Pádraig O'Sullivan, David Cullinane, Peter Roche, Marie Sherlock, ...
Methods: NISIG emailed (with attached letter) members of the Oireachtas our 2026 pre-budget submission. Key asks included securing future funding for the NISIG Helpline. Also, a request for a wider and more sufficiently funded public funded IVF scheme and that eligibility and criteria be broad, equitable, inclusive and reflective of those who seek infertility treatment. Also, that donor conception must be ready to roll out in conjunction with the establishment of the new Regulatory Authority - Email