Irish Medical Organisation

Lobbying Organisation Irish Medical Organisation

Date published 21 Sep, 2020

Relevant Matter Matters involving public funds

Public Policy Area Health

Period 1 May, 2020 to 31 Aug, 2020

Specific Details Covid 19 Policy response - Protection of healthcare workers

Intended results to ensure adequate supplies of PPE; to ensure adequate staffing levels to cover close contact exclusion and sick absent healthcare workers; All healthcare facilities must ensure that policies and protocols are in place in relation to infection prevention and control, that staff have received appropriate guidance and training and that adequate risk assessments have been carried out across all healthcare settings; to strengthen Public Health Medicine services through the immediate awarding of a consultant contract to Specialists in Public Health Medicine as per the recommendations of Crowe Horwath Report and the Scally report in 2018; to ensure all healthcare workers are aware of their occupational rights and entitlements in relation to Covid 19 and have access to appropriately resourced, occupational health services; Public Education campaigns should continue to encourage adherence to NPHET Guidance in relation to social distancing, coughing etiquette, hand washing, travel advice, donning of masks in enclosed areas where social distancing is impractical including healthcare settings; investment in the roll-out of a total population flu-vaccination programme accompanied by a public education campaign to encourage older people, healthcare workers and other at risk groups to avail of the vaccine.

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Vanessa Hetherington

Did any Designated Public Official(DPO) or former Designated Public Official(DPO) carry out lobbying activities on your behalf in relation to this return? You must include yourself, and answer Yes, if you are a current DPO or a DPO at any time in the past. (What is a Designated Public Official?) No

Did you manage or direct a grassroots campaign? No

Was this lobbying done on behalf of a client? No

Lobbying activity

The following activities occurred for this specific Subject Matter Area.

Submission (1)

Submission to the Special oireachtas committee on the Covid 19 response on infection rates among health care workers.

Designated public officials lobbied

The following DPOs were lobbied during this return period on this specific Subject Matter Area. These DPOs were involved in at least one of the Lobbying Activities listed above, but not necessarily all of them. As returns are specific to a Subject Matter Area the above Lobbying Activities may be associated with multiple returns.

Colm Brophy TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Colm Burke TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Matt Carthy TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Matt Shanahan TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Michael Collins TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Michael McNamara TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

David Cullinane TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Cormac Devlin TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Pearse Doherty TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Neasa Hourigan TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Paul McAuliffe TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Fergus O'Dowd TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Louise O'Reilly TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Pádraig O'Sullivan TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Róisín Shorthall TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Bríd Smith TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Duncan Smith TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Mary Butler TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Stephen Donnelly TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Ossian Smyth TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Norma Foley TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

John McGuinness TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)