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2025-01-13
Politician(s) lobbied: Breda Smyth (Interim Chief Medical Officer), Department of Health; Professor Breda Smyth (Chief Medical Officer), Department of Health; Robert Watt (Secretary General), Department of Health; Stephen Donnelly (Minister), Department of Health; Thomas Byrne (Minister of State), Department of the Taoiseach; Máirín Ryan (Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Health Technology Assessment), Health Information and Quality Authority; Colm Henry (Chief Clinical Officer), Health Service Executive
Intent: raise awareness of the supply chain and implementation challenges along with cost effectiveness considerations for bot RSV/Influenzas
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | RSV implementation programme/Influenza immunisation |
2024-06-20
Politician(s) lobbied: David Cullinane (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Robert Watt (Secretary General), Department of Health
Intent: : To make the State aware of the success that RSV immunisations are having in other EU jurisdictions and to highlight the need for better and faster decision making and implementation.
Methods: Email, Phone call, Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | To make the case for the rollout of RSV immunisation programmes and better pandemic planning in Ireland |
| — | the EU and globally. |
2024-06-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Billy Kelleher (MEP), European Parliament; David Cullinane (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: brief on IPHA industry position regarding above
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Engage on the WHO Pandemic Treaty and EU Health Package |
2024-06-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Robert Watt (Secretary General), Department of Health
Intent: : To propose that a white paper on a collaborative forum for stakeholder engagement be developed at a national and EU level.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | To make the case for a collaborative forum between the public and private sectors to allow co-operation on public health outcomes |
2018-12-11
Politician(s) lobbied: Jim Daly (Minister of State), Department of Health
Intent: Increased awareness at political level of the need for comprehensive campaigns to raise public awreness of the importance of vaccinations in high risk populations in line wiht WHO guidelines.
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | The meeting was arranged to discuss the low level of influenza vaccination uptake in high risk populations in Ireland |
| — | particularly the over 65 year olds. The vaccination rate in Ireland is 55% vs a WHO target of 75%. This has resulted in unnecessary hospitalisations |
| — | ICU admissions and increased mortality. |