Politician(s) lobbied: Colm Henry (Chief Clinical Officer), Health Service Executive; Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Minister), Department of Health; Simon Harris (Tánaiste and Minister), Department of Foreign Affairs; Máirín Ryan (Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Health Technology Assessment), Health Information and Quality Authority; Professor Mary Horgan (Chief Medical Officer), Department of Health; Bernard Gloster (Chief Executive Officer), Health Service Executive; Conor Glynn (Special Advisor to the Tanaiste), Department of the Taoiseach; Martin Daly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ken O'Flynn (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Barry Ward (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; David Cullinane (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Kevin Smyth (Assistant Secretary), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; Robert Watt (Secretary General), Department of Health; Billy Kelleher (MEP), European Parliament; Maeve von Heynitz (Director General), Department of Foreign Affairs
Intent: General Awareness of Vaccination/immunisation
Methods: EmailMeeting
Politician(s) lobbied: Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Minister), Department of Health; Professor Mary Horgan (Chief Medical Officer), Department of Health; Colm Henry (Chief Clinical Officer), Health Service Executive; Bernard Gloster (Chief Executive Officer), Health Service Executive; Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (Minister of State), Department of Health
Intent: Revision of the vaccine procurement frameworks in the future to allow for more value based CRITERIA INCLUSION AND To inform and educate on the clinical and cost effective merits of enhanced vaccines within specific at risk and age related patient cohorts for forthcoming Public Health procurement frameworks
Methods: Email
Politician(s) lobbied: Erin McGreehan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: To raise awareness of the need to have a coherent long term strategy around AI competitiveness and further education
Methods: Meeting
Politician(s) lobbied: Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Minister), Department of Health; Robert Watt (Secretary General), Department of Health; Thomas Byrne (Minister of State), Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media; Erin McGreehan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Colm Henry (Chief Clinical Officer), Health Service Executive; Colm Henry (Chief Clinical Officer), Health Service Executive; Bernard Gloster (Chief Executive Officer), Health Service Executive
Intent: To develop the RSV programme to include all infants for season 25/26
Methods: MeetingEmail
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Meeting
discussions around the benefits of an National strategy for AI
Meeting
discussions on the importance of early access for patients in Ireland to innovative medicines
Email
emails to inform on RSV medicines supply timelines
Meeting
meetings to remind decision makers of supply chain deadlines to secure stock of certain medicines
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
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standard communication seeking clarifications and informing of supply chain considerations
Politician(s) lobbied: Unknown
Intent: Unknown
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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: EmailMeetingPhone call
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
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
Politician(s) lobbied: Unknown
Intent: Unknown
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