Intent: Correct Funding Model for Saint Lukes Cork. In the short term - include Saint Lukes Cork as an in scope organisation and to benefit from the March 2025 WRC pay agreement between Government and ICTU. Ultimately Saint Lukes should receive special status as a voluntary organisation as it continues to provide a significant array of services for the older people of Cork. It remains an existential crisis for us.
Details: A S39 not for profit organisation with voluntary and charitable status seeking appropriate funding to stem operating losses, achieve pay parity with our colleagues in the HSE through appropriate means ( NTPF or HSE or Legislation)
Invitation to all REOs and the CEO of the HSE to attend the FASD in Ireland Conference. - EmailInvitation to all TDs and Senator in Clare to attend the FASD in Ireland Conference. - EmailInvitation to the Minister for Health to attend the FASD in Ireland Conference. - Email
Intent: to highlight the social and commercial determinants of poor health and the need for cross departmental action on health inequalities::to highlight the relationship between access to pornography and sexual and gender-based violence and the need for legislation in this area. ::to highlight the current issues in relation to the Mental Health Bill 2024 and the involuntary admission and treatment of patients with severe mental illness
Details: Invitation to attend the IMO AGM 2025 educational sessions
Intent: To increase awareness of DFI, our role and purpose. Share data from the CSO on disability prevalence in their region. Profile DFI members in their region. And to raise topics of concern to our members to the REO - funding, capacity, and communication.
Details: HSE Restructuring - Health Regions and REOs
3 Meetings held with HSE REOs in Q1 2025: - Meeting with Tony Canavan (REO West and North-West) on 17/01/25. - Meeting with Dr Andy Phillips (REO South and South-West) on 20/03/25. - Meeting with Sandra Broderick (REO Midwest) on 25/03/25. - Meeting
Intent: Correct Funding Model for Saint Lukes Cork::Include Saint Lukes Cork ( as in scope) in the March 2025 WRC agreement between ICTU and Government ::see above
Details: A S39 not for profit organisation with voluntary and charitable status seeking appropriate funding to stem operating losses, achieve pay parity with our colleagues in the HSE through appropriate means ( NTPF or Legislation)
Intent: That immediate action is taken to urge the National Director of HR to activate the adverse weather policy, as detailed in the HSE Red Weather Event Policy, to safeguard the well-being of employees.
Details: Request to activate adverse weather policy in response to Met Éireann red weather warning for Cork and Kerry
Intent: To seek that the HSE South West will take all necessary steps to ensure that the facility will be operated by HSE-employed staff and that any current work related to the commissioning of an external provider to operate the facility will be immediately suspended.
Details: Breach of the Public Service Agreement 2024-2026 as HSE South West intended to contract a private healthcare provider to staff and operate the HSE facility in Blarney Co. Cork
Intent: The establishment of a protocol to manage patients who are medically fit for discharge but who continue to remain as inpatients, as well as the filling of all vacant paediatric nursing positions.
Details: Health & safety and staffing concerns in the paediatric unit in Cork University Hospital
Intent: To secure confirmation that the HSE will seek to directly resource and manage the unit once a location has been found, and to remind the HSE that there is a requirement to engage with the INMO re. staffing and governance.
Details: Planned local injuries unit in the Killarney area
