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Clarecare CLG

January–April

[Health] Lobbying for additional funds to operate day care services in Shannon & Kilrush Co Clare

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Cathal Crowe', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Clarecare CLG

May–August

[Health] Met With Timmy Dooley to discuss new Shannon Development

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Timmy Dooley', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Clarecare CLG

September–December

[Health] Met with Cathal Crowe to highlight the funding deficit that exists within the addiction service.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Cathal Crowe', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Clarecare CLG

May–August

[Health] purpose was to lobby for core funding, seek outcome of the unit cost analysis undertaken by HSE and to address the issue of annual funding address the issue of annual funding

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Hildegarde Naughton', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Clarecare CLG

May–August

[Health] CRAVA(Children's Residential & Aftercare Voluntary Alliance) held a meeting on 17/5/23 regarding pay restoration for Tusla funded staff

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Róisín Garvey', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Clarecare CLG

January–April

[Budgetary matters] To ask Minister frank Feighan to review the funding model which Bushypark addiction treatment center is in receipt of.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Frank Feighan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Joe Carey', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Martin Conway', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Gabriel Keating', 'role': 'Councillor (Clare County Council)'}

Clarecare CLG

May–August

[Public Expenditure and Reform] 26 family support workers within Clarecare have been excluded from recent s39 pay restoration exercise. Tusla have communicated that their is no additional funds to restore pay restoration to this group of workers.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Timmy Dooley', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Joe Carey', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Violet Anne Wynne', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Michael McNamara', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Róisín Garvey', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Cathal Crowe', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Clarecare CLG

September–December

[Health] To ask the Minister for health to revise the current funding model which Bushy Park addiction Treatment centre, Ennis in receipt off.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Cathal Crowe', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Pat Daly', 'role': 'Councillor (Clare County Council)'}

Clarecare CLG

on behalf of Yes (client not named)

May–August

[Health] Meet with TD Joe Carey to lobby for funds for Clarecare addiction centre - Bushy Park as significant reduction in revenue due to Covid-19. Bushypark has made application to Covid Stability fund

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Joe Carey', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Clarecare CLG

May–August

[Health] Phone call with TD Michael Mc Namara to lobby for funding for Clarecare addiction & Treatment centre based in Bushypark Ennis - Bushy Park as significant reduction in revenue due to Covid-19. Bushypark has made application to Covid Stability fund

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michael McNamara', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Clarecare CLG

May–August

[Health] meeting Minister Breen to lobby for funds to employ an addiction support worker in the Kilrush area

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Pat Breen', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation)'}

Clarecare CLG

May–August

[Health] Sought Government Support with regards to funding the Addiction Treatment Centre in Bushypark

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Catherine Byrne', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}

Clarecare CLG

May–August

[Children and Youth Affairs] Circulated a statement to all TD's and senators seeking amendments to the proposed text of the Adoption (Information & Tracing) Bill 2016, which if passed in its current format would exclude Accredited Adoption bodies from providing an adoption support (information & tracing) service as they are currently Accredited by the Adoption Authority to carry out.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': ''}

Clarecare CLG

September–December

[Health] lobbied on behalf of the National Community Care Network (NCCN) for cooperation between the Departments of Health and Social Protection in addressing the home Carer shortage crisis by changing the basis for Social Welfare Payments eligibility from hours per day to hours per week. Thus enabling persons to be carers of Older Persons and others for a minimum period on one or more days without being penalised and exempted from social welfare entitlements as is the case today.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michael Harty', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Louise O'Reilly", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Clarecare CLG

September–December

[Community] Endeavoured to get TD's to advocate for more funds in to the care of Older persons in the community through Home Care and better staffed Day Centres. Also get the DSP to consider Social welfare payments based on hours worked per week rather than hours worked per day as is the case today.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michael Harty', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Clarecare CLG

September–December

[Community] Endeavoured to get TD's to advocate for more funds in to the care of Older persons in the community through Home Care and better staffed Day Centres

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michael Harty', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

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