Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation

Lobbying Organisation Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation

Date published 26 May, 2016

Relevant Matter Public policy or programme

Public Policy Area Health

Period 1 Jan, 2016 to 30 Apr, 2016

Specific Details 10 year Plan for Health service

Intended results Seeking all party consencus on an agreed plan for Public Health Service for at least 10 years.

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Liam Doran General Secretary

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.

Letter (1)

INMO welcome National Health Summit. 03.03.16 The Irish Nurse and Midwives Organisation (INMO) welcomes the support, from some General Practitioners, for its long standing call for a National Summit, leading to consensus, on the role, structure and funding of the public health service in this country. The INMO first made a call, for such a national summit, in 2008 and repeated the call in 2011 (at the last General Election). In recent weeks, in the context of the long standing challenges, facing the service, we renewed the call as the current situation cannot continue which sees the public health service underfunded and undersized. The last decade has seen at least four waves of organisational reform within our public health service. However these reforms have not delivered the clarity that is necessary, in terms of size, capacity, structures and, critically, funding to allow this country plan for a health service, fit for purpose, for the next 20 years and beyon

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)