Intent: To address the deficits in Section 39 organisations and to restore pay parity for employees of Section 39 organisations with their peers in HSE.
Details: Pay Restoration for staff in Section39 organisations and funding of deficits in same organisations.
Attended Dáil debate re: motion on Section 39 funding on 17/12/2019. Spoke with Caoimhghín O’Caolain - Event / ReceptionDiscussion with Simon Coveney - MeetingFollow up email correspondence to Simon Coveney – 26/11/2019 - Email
Intent: Additional Funding for RehabCare's services to 3,000 people around the country secured
Details: Lobbying activity to highlight the need to resolve the significant funding deficits being experienced by RehabCare in the provision of services to more than 3,000 people with disabilities
Letters to Minister for Health (the first of which was copied to Secretary General of the Department of Health) alerting him to the issue at hand. - LetterPhone calls to follow up on the issue being raised with Joanne Lonergan, Marcella Corcoran Kennedy, Gerry Maguire - Phone call
Raised this after the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Consultative forum and also at an NDA launch on Personalised Budgets. - MeetingEmail
Intent: Official Irish representation at the UN CRPD COSP, including representatives from DFI, funding to support the delegates, a side-event hosted by/with Ireland
Intent: Budget to implement UN CRPD: •IHREC & Departments •Individualised community-based services •Personal budgets, rehabilitation, respite, therapies •Pay restoration for s.39s •Health •Transport grant & access •Address extra costs of living with disability •Medical Card earnings disregard •Disability allowance •Employment •AT •Social housing •HAP Placefinders •Incentivise appropriate private construction & rentals•HAG•Assess/appeal/plan/support children & students & FETs in ETBs•Funding conditions
Contacted transport specialist in Senator John Dolan's office to seek input into DFI's Pre-Budget Submission 2019 on transport asks. - EmailInvite emails were sent to certain public representatives and political party policy staff seeking meetings to discuss DFI's Pre-Budget Submission and priorities for Budget 2019. - EmailMeeting of DFI staff with certain public representatives and political party policy / support staff took place to discuss DFI's Pre-Budget Submission and priorities for Budget 2019. - Meeting
Intent: Securing necessary funding to support school - leavers / adults with Down syndrome to access meaningful employment opportunities::Looking at public policy area changes that would assist school-leavers / adults with Down syndrome enter the workforce
Details: Securing funding / support for Down Syndrome Ireland's adult training and education programme
Follow up email outlining DSI's adult training and employment strategy - EmailMeeting with Special Adviser to Minister Finian McGrath Gerry Maguire - Meeting
Intent: To change the present practice of placing vulnerable Deaf people in services where they have no or very limited access to sign language to one where Deaf people are clustered in services where care and support is delivered through sign language.
Details: To seek implementation of a HSE Working Group Report on the Residential Needs of Vulnerable Adults.
Email seeking meeting with Minister on this matter. - EmailOne meeting with Sinn Fein Health spokesperson on this matter. - MeetingUpdates provided to Minister's adviser by phone. - Phone call
