The NTPF arranges treatments for patients, provides independently assured waiting list information, develops systems and processes which contribute to health system reform, negotiates prices for nursing home care, and provides expert advice to the Minister for Health.
Board Members
Niall Quinn
Board Member
Niall Quinn was appointed to the NTPF Board on 25th May 2023. Niall is a practising barrister and Accredited Mediator working on the Dublin, Northern, Eastern and Midland Circuits. Prior to commencing practice at the Bar, and his work as a mediator, he was a strategic communications specialist for 20 years. A former President of the Public Relations Institute of Ireland (PRII) and non-executive Director of the Public Relations Consultants Association, he continues to lecture in strategic communications, and directs the PRII’s professional certification programme in issues and crisis communications, as well as being engaged for strategic communications assignments.
A BSc (Mgmt) graduate of Trinity College Dublin, he completed his postgraduate studies in law at King’s Inns, Dublin and undertook the Barrister-at-Law degree programme before being called to the Bar of Ireland in 2015. He subsequently completed training as a mediator, and enjoys Accredited Mediator status from the Mediators’ Institute of Ireland, and is a member of its Organisational and Workplace Mediation Committee.
Niall has been a member of the National Oversight and Audit Commission, a statutory body which has an oversight role in the Local Authority sector, since 2020 and was appointed to the board of the National Treatment Purchase Fund in May 2023. Last year he was selected by the Mental Health Commission for its panel of Decision-Making Representatives to be appointed under the Assisted Decision Making Act 2015.