Lobbying Records (Page 1 of 1)
Pfizer
2021-09-20
Intent: Provide information in relation to COVID-19 vaccine supply and manufacturing
Details: Supply of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine including Ireland volumes; expansion of manufacturing capacity to include Grange Castle site and Pfizer colleague vaccination programme
Officials: Micheál Martin, Deirdre Gillane, Nick Miller, Susan Mitchell, David Cullinane, Emer Higgins, Thomas Byrne, Gerry O'Brien
Methods: Email, Phone call
Irish Penal Reform Trust
2021-09-20
Intent: Accelerate prison vaccination roll-out so that Ireland meets its obligations and duties to people detained.::Outline the importance of prison vaccination programme to the protection and promotion of wider public health.::Emphasise importance of early vaccine roll-out to minimise harms to physical and mental health of ongoing restrictions.::Advocate for the transfer of responsibility for prison healthcare to the national health service.
Details: Covid-19 vaccine roll out in prisons
Officials: Stephen Donnelly, Hildegarde Naughton, Caron McCaffrey, Colm Desmond, Oonagh McPhillips, Fergal Goodman, Gerry O'Brien
Methods: Letter outlining Ireland's failure to meet its obligations under a number of rights instruments in terms of provision of equivalence of healthcare to men and women in prison, setting out the expert evidence that supports early roll-out of the national vaccine programme in prisons. - Letter
Irish Platform for Patients' Organisations, Science and Industry
2021-09-01
Intent: Greater and more systematic patient involvement and public transparency on the negotiation process
Details: Letter to Dept. of Health regarding the negotiations with IPHA re innovative medicines
Officials: Fergal Goodman, Susan Mitchell, Paul Bolger, Colm Desmond, Gerry O'Brien
Methods: Email
Nursing Homes Ireland
2021-01-21
Intent: To have issues relating to workforce planning in the nursing home sector adequately addressed as the sector faces the challenges presented by Covid-19 pandemic. There is a severe shortage of Healthcare Assistants in the nursing home and broader healthcare sector and requirement presents to remove the role from the Ineligible Categories of Employment Listing on a restricted basis. Furthermore, necessity to implement long-term workforce plan for health services to meet growth in requirement
Details: Correspondence with Department of Health officials re workforce planning concerns in nursing home sector, exacerbated by Covid-19 pandemic.
Officials: Gerry O'Brien
Methods: Letter informing of significant workforce planning concerns in nursing home sector. - Letter, Email