Jerry Buttimer

To secure meetings with Drinkaware to introduce the organisation and discuss matters concerning young people and alcohol education

Brexit support - beef farmers: in addition to the €100m (EU Commission €50m, National Government €50m) further direct support for farmers will be needed to deal with losses incurred, particularly for beef farmers, post May 2019. These ongoing losses are due to the decline in the…

Awareness of the need to maintain specialist respite and holiday services (at Cuisle) for people with complex disability, including those living with Huntington’s Disease, who cannot avail of hotel respite breaks. Throughout Ireland people living with complex conditions and…

1) to ensure the definition of patient safety incident excludes adverse events that are not the result of a patient safety incidents 2) to ensure mandatory reporting of patient safety events applies to providers and not individual practitioners who are already subject to…

To pursue better outcomes for unemployed people and others of working age from Budget 2020. In particular to ensure that there is a better understanding of the role and interaction between adequate income, supportive employment services, good activation programmes, access to…

Healthcare Assistants on the Critical Skills List::A pool of potential candidates to employ from

To secure more inclusive, constructive and well resourced social protection, education and training and employment policies and outcomes.

To inform and appraise legislators on the potentially draconian unforeseen and unintended consequences of the proposed legislation as initially drafted and the impact it could have on the ability to practice of qualified medical herbalists & others in the complimentary…

Attendance at an event presenting the Medicines for Ireland Manifesto 2019

To ensure that cattle price returns are in line with the EU/UK average and to ensure that farmers get a fair price for their cattle to ensure a income as they are encountering severe income difficulties as a result of the falling prices.::A comprehensive package of market…

Highlight the high rate of excise tax in Ireland and seek a reduction

Press release to inform of SWAI success working with Gardai to deliver 20 year jail sentence to serial rapist despite 20% decrease in amount of workers wanting to engage with Gardai due to the law.

Press release to inform policy-makers that under the new brothel-keeping law in the legislation, two sex workers, one of whom is pregnant were given 9 month jail sentences (not the pimps or traffickers the law purportedly targets).

Ensure understanding of business perspectives on the Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018

Secure the attendnace of the DPO at the seminar.