Tony Canavan

Tony Canavan

Total lobbying returns involving this official: 7

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Most Recent Title
Regional Executive Officer
Most Recent Public Body
Health Service Executive
First Seen
21 January 2025
Last Seen
9 September 2025

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Regional Executive Officer

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Health Service Executive
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Lobbying Records (Page 1 of 1)

Intent: To secure an office space in in Mayo for our new Mayo Parkinson's Nurse to see patients in-person.

Details: Wrote to the REO for the HSE Region to request an office space for our incoming Mayo based Parkinson's Nurse

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Methods
Have had multiple emails back and forth to follow up and to be passed on to relevant stakeholders. - Email

Intent: That the relevant person would attend the conference.

Details: Invitations to FASD in Ireland Conference

Methods
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

Methods
Email invitation to attend the educational sessions at the IMO AGM 2025 in Killarney - Email

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

Methods
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: To advise the HSE that Joint Organising Committees (INMO and Forsa) are to be established within each of the 6 Health Regions in order to progress members mandate. Once these are established, there will be further rollout of the Joint Organising Committees at the hospital and IHA level.

Details: The unsafe approach to workforce planning by the HSE nationally resulting in growing health and safety concerns due to inadequate staffing and additional workloads

Methods
Ongoing correspondence re. industrial action action, seeking information re. staffing (e.g. number of agency staff, number of vacancies, etc), and seeking to resolve the issue of staffing deficits - Email

Intent: Investment in neurorehabilitation services in the community

Details: Implementation of the neuro-rehabilitation strategy/Implementation Framework

Methods
community awareness & fundraising event - Event / Receptioninvestment in neuro-rehabilitation services in the NW - Emailinvestment in neuro-rehabilitation services in the NW - Event / Reception