Simon Harris

To inform Minister of LauraLynn's Pre-Budget Submission demands and seek to influence Government budget decisions

Ensure required levels of resourcing, address the consultant recruitment & retention crisis, and implementation of pay parity for new entrant consultants.

2020 budget allocation

Information for all members of Oireachtas about the different regulatory regime for vaping within the EU in comparison with the USA

To seek a meeting to request that proposed cuts to pharmacy fees are reversed and to seek a commitment to starting negotiations on a new pharmacy contract

1)To reverse the decision by the Department of Health to reduce the level of fees paid to community pharmacists for providing services on behalf of the State. 2) To secure commitment that negotiations on a new pharmacy contract and investment in pharmacy services will take…

Progressing the 4th Practice with health policy makers.

Query re omission of data from the 2019 Healthy Ireland Survey. There is no inclusion on the percentage of successful quit attempts which involved e-cigarettes and VBI do not understand why a data point from the 2018 report was omitted from the 2019 report.

To get an update on the post for the Clinical Nurse Specialist for MS in Limerick.::To have a a Parliamentary Question raised for clarification on when a clinical nurse specialist would take post in Limerick.::To have a letter sent to HSE management seeking information on when a…

Inform Ministers of the work of the Irish Lung Fibrosis Association (ILFA)

To highlight the difficulties currently faced by the public in accessing nicotine replacement therapy::For the HSE to fund and operate a nationwide smoking cessation programme modeled on the Irish Cancer Society's 'We Can Quit' initiative.

To secure additional funding in Budget 2020 for the National Cancer Strategy

Expedite the development of a National Policy Framework on Biosimilars

Ensure access to innovative therapies

Restrictions on e-cigarette advertising::Restrictions on e-cigarette flavours other than tobacco::A ban on the sale of e-cigarettes to those under the age of 18::To invite Minister Simon Harris to launch the results of the Irish Cancer Society/ Irish Heart Foundation research on…