Northside Home Care Services CLG

Lobbying Organisation Northside Home Care Services CLG

Date published 02 Jan, 2020

Relevant Matter Legislation

Public Policy Area Health

Period 1 Sep, 2019 to 31 Dec, 2019

Specific Details Labour Market Shortages in Home Care

Intended results Review of DEASP payments hours per day worked to hours per week and, open employment permits for Health Care Sector. Regularisation of undocumented workforce.

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Maria Jackson

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.

Meeting (1)

Meeting at Leinster House office to discuss to discuss the labour market shortatge within the Health Care Sector, we asked for a review of DEASP payments of hours per day worked to hours per week and the possibilty of opening employment permits for the Health Care Sector and the regularisation of the undocumented workforce in this area.

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.

Regina Doherty Minister (Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection)