Raising awareness about rare disease policy in Ireland in Ireland and the EU and improving access to treatments for rare disease patients - EmailRaising awareness about rare disease policy in Ireland in Ireland and the EU and improving access to treatments for rare disease patients - MeetingRaising awareness about rare disease policy in Ireland in Ireland and the EU and improving access to treatments for rare disease patients - Virtual Meeting
Intent: Support for housing policies relating to older people and the report, 'Double Deficit: Older and Ageing Persons in the Private Rental Sector', co-published between ALONE and Threshold
Email requests to individual members of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing to support attendance of ALONE and Threshold at Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing to discuss Double Deficit report on the needs of older renters - EmailIndividual emails inviting individual Oireachtas members to attend event in the AV room - EmailPresentation to Oireachtas members in AV room, Leinster House with Threshold, relating to findings of report 'Double Deficit: Older and Ageing Persons in the Private Rental Sector' - Event / Reception
Intent: To secure better outcomes for Autistic people engaging with mental health services and to advocate for reform of CAMHS to be more inclusive.
Details: Met with the Minister of State for Mental Health and department officials to discuss the recommendations made by the Joint Oireachtas Committee's final report on Autism.
A letter to outline the recommendations made by the Joint Oireachtas Committees final report - LetterEmails to set up the meeting - EmailVirtual Meeting
Intent: 1) Increase in government funding for mental health sector.::2) Clarification around HSE Mental Health recruitment times.::3) Improvements in mental health services provided to children and young people.
2-5 phone calls were made to the following DPOs for intended result 1 - Increase in government funding for mental health sector:1) Susan Mitchell, Special Adviser to Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly on 27/09/20232) Mark Ward on 10/09/2023 and 17/10/2023. - Phone callAs a part of the #IAmAReason Budget Campaign to increase government funding for the mental health sector, 2-5 emails were sent to the following DPOs:1) To Minister Stephen Donnelly, Minister Mary Butler, Senator Mary Seery Kearney on 01/09/2023;2) To Senator Aisling Dolan and Martin Conway, Senator Frances Black, Gino Kenny TD, Neasa Hourigan TD on 04/09/20233) To Minister Mary Butler on 04/09/2023. - EmailAs a part of the #IAmAReason Budget Campaign to increase the government funding for mental health sector, one email was sent to Mark Ward TD, Jennifer Whitmore TD and Senator Annie Hoey on 07/09/2023. - Email
Emails with Mark Ward, Fergus O'Dowd re loneliness - EmailEvent with Mary Butler, also attended by Corona Joyce - Event / ReceptionMeetings with Mark Ward and David Cullinane at Leinster House, re loneliness action plan and mental health - Meeting
Intent: The Department of Health to develop a national hearing care plan for the whole population which would deliver hearing care, such as hearing aids and other relevant supports to people who have acquired a hearing loss.
Details: Development of public health programme to manage the high level of unaddressed hearing loss in Ireland and to consider the recommendations of a WHO report on ear and hearing care published in March 2021.