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Who lobbies whom about what. Search Ireland's lobbying register to see who is influencing your TDs, ministers, and public officials — and on whose behalf.

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Nursing Homes Ireland
September–December
[Health] NHI wrote to Minister Richmond following the govt announcement on the 20th December that there would be changes to the employment permit system. These decisions were made with no consultation from the nursing home sector and those that it will impact the most.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Neale Richmond', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'}
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Nursing Homes Ireland
September–December
[Health] Deputy Colm Burke attended and made the opening remarks at NHI's Annual Conference in Lyrath in September.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Colm Burke', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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Nursing Homes Ireland
September–December
[Health] NHI met with Minister Butler and Dept of Health Officials for a roundtable event to discuss the status of the Nursing Home Expert Panel's 86 Recommendations and invited stakeholders to provide their feedback.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}
🏥 Health 🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Nursing Homes Ireland
September–December
[Health] Deputies Harkin and McNamara held a briefing in Leinster House AV Room on the future of Nursing Homes in Ireland? They invited NHI and its members to speak at the briefing on what is happening on the ground in the sector and what needs to be done to support the sector and stop nursing homes from closing.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Marian Harkin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Michael McNamara', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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Nursing Homes Ireland
January–April
[Health] Presentation of NHI Staffing and Cost Pressures Analyses
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}
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Nursing Homes Ireland
January–April
[Health] Representation re pandemic payment to frontline staff. Nursing home workers were the frontline of the Covid19 pandemic. Engagement with Ministers to ensure inclusion of such staff and rollout to the private and voluntary nursing home sector
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'} {'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}
🏢 Enterprise & Employment 🏥 Health View on lobbying.ie →
Nursing Homes Ireland
January–April
[Health] Establishment of Strategic Workforce Advisory Group
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}
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Nursing Homes Ireland
January–April
[Health] Outbreak Assistance
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'}
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Nursing Homes Ireland
January–April
[Health] Meeting with Minister Butler and Department of Health officials. On the agenda: sustainability of sector due to staffing shortages and the rise of inflation. Severe recruitment and retention staffing challenges present for a sector that cant meet HSE pay scales due to the Fair Deal rates. Failure of Fair Deal to recognise true cost of resident care is placing very severe pressures upon private and voluntary nursing homes.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}
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Nursing Homes Ireland
January–April
[Health] Meeting with Minister and Department Health officials to discuss the inflationary costs in the nursing home sector and the impact the huge increase in costs is having upon providers as they are tasked with providing specialised care to high dependency residents on a 24/7 basis.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}
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Nursing Homes Ireland
January–April
[Health] Meeting to brief on Fair Deal and the urgent requirement to achieve parity for healthcare workers through Fair Deal. The current system of applying discriminatory fees is resulting in providers being unable to match HSE rates. Therefore pay parity within the nursing home sector is unachievable. NHI Members want to provide equal pay for equal work.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'David Cullinane', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🏢 Enterprise & Employment 🏥 Health 🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Nursing Homes Ireland
January–April
[Health] Representation regarding extreme staffing and cost pressures in nursing home sector. In December 2021, the Department of Health published A value for money review of nursing home care costs. This explicitly presents the discrimination being applied by the State in the resourcing of nursing home resident care, which is manifesting in the state of emergency that is now presenting for private and voluntary nursing homes. Crisis being exacerbated given very considerable hike in costs.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Michael Healy-Rae', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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Nursing Homes Ireland
January–April
[Health] Correspondence to TDs in relation to the state of emergency in Nursing Homes regarding extreme staffing and cost pressures. In December 2021, the Department of Health published A value for money review of nursing home care costs. This explicitly presents the discrimination being applied by the State in the resourcing of nursing home resident care, which is manifesting in the state of emergency that is now presenting for private and voluntary nursing homes.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Marian Harkin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Jerry Buttimer', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': "Willie O'Dea", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Michael McNamara', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Duncan Smith', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Marc MacSharry', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 16 more
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Nursing Homes Ireland
January–April
[Health] Engagement with TD re proposed closure of a nursing home in his constituency, manifestation of severe challenges presenting for the operation of nursing homes and smaller nursing homes in particular, given failure of Fair Deal to recognise reality of resident care costs.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': "Kieran O'Donnell", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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Nursing Homes Ireland
January–April
[Health] Representations to the Minister for Older People re National Quality Standards for Residential Care Settings for Older People Standard 25; Physical Environment. Clarity sought with regard to application of the standard in 2022 for all nursing homes regulated by HIQA.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}
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Nursing Homes Ireland
January–April
[Health] Invitation to the Advanced Healthcare Practitioner Apprenticeship Launch
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Colm Burke', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Róisín Shorthall', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Duncan Smith', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'David Cullinane', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Simon Harris', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Further and Higher Education, Innovation and Science)'}
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Nursing Homes Ireland
May–August
[Health] NHI wrote to the Minister outlining how unacceptable the delays were in giving nursing home staff the recognition payment. We requested urgent action on this as these staff cared for the most vulnerable during the pandemic.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'}
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Nursing Homes Ireland
May–August
[Health] NHI issued an invitation to Minister Donnelly to attend and make the opening address at the NHI Conference in November.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'}
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Nursing Homes Ireland
May–August
[Health] NHI wrote to Minister Butler outlining that we are aware of national symposium that was to take place 22nd June to “consider the evidence base regarding the health benefits from creative arts and discuss arts and health activities in hospitals that can help deliver better health outcomes for patients and their carers”
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}
🌍 Climate & Energy 🏥 Health View on lobbying.ie →
Nursing Homes Ireland
May–August
[Health] NHI met with Minister Butler and Dept of Health Officials to outline the emergency that is presenting in the sector due to the soaring cost of living and inflationary pressures. NHI stated that Nursing homes are finding it too difficult to stay open in the current climate and many have said if nothing changes they will have to close.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}
🌍 Climate & Energy 🏥 Health 🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Nursing Homes Ireland
May–August
[Gaeltacht] NHI wrote to Minister Butler acknowledging the continuation of the outbreak assistance scheme but did say that it is important to realise staffing pressures remain intensive for nursing homes in managing outbreaks. In this regard, it is disappointing the threshold to support the significantly increased staffing costs has been reduced.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}
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Nursing Homes Ireland
May–August
[Health] NHI wrote a follow on letter to Minister Butler post 8th July meeting thanking her for a constructive meeting and also that we were particularly encouraged by your express commitment to introduce a mechanism to support nursing home residents in the current unprecedented inflationary environment. We note and welcome that final proposals are currently with the finance unit in Department of Health to ensure the sustainability of the sector and maintain service continuity.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}
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Nursing Homes Ireland
May–August
[Health] Nursing Home Staffing Crisis - request for roundtable. NHI wrote to Minister Butler to highlight the staffing crisis presenting in nursing homes. We stated that it must be considered that if nursing homes are unable to ensure appropriate staffing levels, there is a direct impact on older persons requiring care, as nursing homes will not be in a position to accept admissions from the already crowded acute hospitals.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}
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Nursing Homes Ireland
May–August
[Health] NHI wrote to Minister Butler re Emergency Planning and designation of nursing home sector as essential service- restrictions for the Winter period. There is a degree of apprehension within the nursing home sector, given the potentially very serious impact a shortage of energy supplies could present for nursing homes entrusted with meeting the health and social care needs of older people.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}
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Nursing Homes Ireland
May–August
[Health] NHI wrote to Minister Butler again highlighting the urgency of the impact of rising inflation was having on nursing homes and the sustainability of the sector as a whole.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}
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Nursing Homes Ireland
May–August
[Health] NHI wrote to An Taoiseach highlighting the serious emergency the sector is facing. NHI outlined that In recent weeks a number of smaller nursing homes have contacted NHI to state they will be closing their doors, citing cost pressures as the defining determinant in their decision. A crisis is presenting for our sector that requires urgent redress.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'}
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Nursing Homes Ireland
May–August
[Health] NHI met with Kieran O'Donnell TD to discuss the current crisis in the nursing home sector and how the soaring costs are making it unviable for nursing homes to stay open.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': "Kieran O'Donnell", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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Nursing Homes Ireland
May–August
[Health] Sean Canney TD wrote to Minister Donnelly in relation to increased subventions for nursing homes and received a written response which he sent on to NHI.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Seán Canney', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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Nursing Homes Ireland
May–August
[Health] Representation to Deputy Colm Burke regarding the extraordinary increase in costs being incurred by private and voluntary nursing homes and urgent requirement for State intervention to alleviate extreme pressures upon nursing homes in providing specialised care. Extreme cost pressures have resulted in the closure of nursing homes and NHI advocated for urgent Government response to stem the closures.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Colm Burke', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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Nursing Homes Ireland
May–August
[Health] Representation to Deputy Colm Burke regarding continued failure by the State to address the failure of the Nursing Home Support Scheme (Fair Deal) pricing mechanism to encompass the reality of nursing home resident care costs, as per the Department of Health review of the scheme in 2015 and numerous independent analyses stating it is not fit commensurate with the reality of care costs. The representation cited the Review of Pricing System for Long Term Residential Care Facilities, publ
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Colm Burke', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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All lobbying data comes from the Regulation of Lobbying Register, maintained by the Standards in Public Office Commission under the Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015.

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