Headway Brain Injury Services and Support

Lobbying Organisation Headway Brain Injury Services and Support

Date published 16 May, 2016

Relevant Matter Matters involving public funds

Public Policy Area Health

Period 1 Jan, 2016 to 30 Apr, 2016

Specific Details Communication to establish a commitment to fund Headway and other section 39 agencies to enable the payment of annual increments.

Intended results Commitment from Dept. of Health to facilitate constructive engagement with HSE around the topic of funding annual increments

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Kieran Loughran

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.

Email (2-5)

Email dialogue and follow up from original letter to ascertain the position of the Dept. of Health on the matter of assisting an engagement between Headway and HSE to discuss additional funding for the payment of annual increments.

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.

Leo Varadkar Minister (Department of Health)