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CareChoice

May–August

[Employment] Relating to the planned increase to the minimum annual remuneration thresholds for Health Care Assistants

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Emer Higgins', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'}

CareChoice

January–April

[Health] Section 66 Notices of Closure of Cork Nursing Homes

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'} {'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'}

CareChoice

May–August

[Health] In the matter of access to Psychiatry of Later Life services from the HSE at a care home owned by CareChoice Swords Ltd. in Swords, Co. Dublin, CareChoice wrote to the Minister for State in the Department of Health noting that psychiatry services have not been provided by the HSE to the care home since it opened in 2019 and this impacts on new and existing residents, many of whom cannot afford private psychiatry services and as such puts CareChoice Swords Ltd. at a competitive disadvant

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}

CareChoice

September–December

[Health] In relation to the Fair Deal funding scheme, CareChoice wrote to Ministers Stephen Donnelly and Michael McGrath requesting funding support for the CareChoice Group of nursing homes under the Fair Deal scheme. A letter was sent to the ministers on behalf of the Chairperson of CareChoice Group.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'}

CareChoice

January–April

[Health] 1. The application for permits pre-Covid 19 outbreak 2. Assistance/support for transport of non-EEA nationals who had been recruited as nurses to CareChoice prior the outbreak but had been unable to travel due to restrictions. 3. Requesting postponement of the HSE recruitment process for nurses employed in our homes during the Covid 19 crisis.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Simon Harris', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Brendan Smith', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Q4PR

on behalf of Yes (client not named)

January–April

[Health] To provide Ms. Barrett with a copy of a letter that CareChoice sent to Minister Harris and to seek a CareChoice meeting with Minister Harris.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Kathy Ann Barrett', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Health)'}

CareChoice

January–April

[Health] Discussions with policy makers in relation to funding of the nursing home sector.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Jim Daly', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Jim Breslin', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Simon Harris', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'}

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