ICP Pre-Budget 2025 Submission to Government & General Election Manifesto

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ICP Pre-Budget 2025 Submission to Government

General Election Manifesto 

Dear Registrant,

The ICP has launched our Pre-Budget 2025 Submission to Government, and also our General Election Manifesto addressed to all political parties.

Both the Pre-Budget Submission and the General Election Manifesto includes a call for the inclusion of specific commitments by all parties in health / mental health, education and finance as follows:

(1) The Irish Council for Psychotherapy (ICP) calls on all political parties to include a commitment to implement the following recommendations in its Health and Mental Health Manifestos for the forthcoming general election:

The ICP calls on all political parties, at this critical time in the regulation of psychotherapy, to protect the high standards of training.  Psychotherapists are required to engage in extensive personal psychotherapy during their training which is up to seven years duration and involves a professional highly specialised, theoretical and clinical training which include research methodology and continuous professional development.

(2) The ICP calls on all political parties to include a commitment in its Education Manifesto to approve the use of state-aided school funding to avail of the services of psychotherapists in private practice according to each school’s unique context, culture and environment.

(3) The ICP calls on all political parties to include a commitment in its Finance Manifesto to amend the Value-Added Tax Consolidation Act 2010 to make psychotherapy services VAT exempt in line with services provided by other health and social care professions including those of psychologists.

Please click on the following link to see the full pre-budget submission to government: ICP Pre Budget Submission 2025 https://tinyurl.com/2m5j9mfy  

Please click on the following link to see the full general election manifesto submission sent to Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Labour, Green, Sinn Féin and Social Democrats Parties: ICP General Election Manifesto 2024 https://tinyurl.com/26b74ky5

We are strongly encouraging you to email your local TD, election candidate or Senator today, to make sure that the ICP issues are addressed in Budget 2025 and that each political party includes the ICP “Asks” in their respective election manifestos.

National advocacy is much more successful when backed up by local advocacy at constituency level. Please click on the following link to find contact details for your local TD or Senator: TDs & Senators

Each political party website should also list contact details for candidates selected for the forthcoming general election in your constituency.

Rúaidhrí O’Connor

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Irish Council for Psychotherapy (ICP)

Rúaidhrí O’Connor (CEO) & Belinda Moller (Chair) outside Leinster House