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2025-01-06
Politician(s) lobbied: George Lawlor (Councillor), Wexford County Council; Pip Breen (Councillor), Wexford County Council; Mary Farrell (Councillor), Wexford County Council; James Browne (Minister of State), Department of Justice
Intent: Local Politicians aware of work of ILMI and role of local DPOs in policy development in Wexford
Methods: Event / Reception
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Invitation to the launch of Wexford DPO |
2025-01-06
Politician(s) lobbied: Helen McEntee (Minister), Department of Justice; Jack Chambers (Minister), Department of Finance; Ivana Bacik (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mary Lou McDonald (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Holly Cairns (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Simon Harris (An Taoiseach), Department of the Taoiseach; Micheál Martin (Tánaiste and Minister), Department of Foreign Affairs
Intent: Parties negotiating a new Programme for Goverment are aware of ILMI key asks to invest in inclusion https://ilmi.ie/ge24-invest-in-inclusion/
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Emails sent in relation to negotiations for a new Programme For Government to prioritise inclusion of disabled people |
2024-09-06
Politician(s) lobbied: Joe O'Brien (Minister of State), Department of Rural and Community Development; Colette Finn (Councillor), Cork City Council; Dan Boyle (Councillor), Cork City Council; Oliver Moran (Councillor), Cork City Council
Intent: To have Minister O'Brien Launch the local DPO and also for elected representatives to show importance for and support for local DPO development
Methods: Event / Reception
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Attending the launch of Cork Disabled Persons Organisation (DPO) which ILMI supported through the VOICE project |
| — | funded by DRCD under the Community Development Programme |
2024-09-06
Politician(s) lobbied: Pauline Tully (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Anne Rabbitte (Minister of State), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth; Michael Moynihan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Seán Canney (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Simon Coveney (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Dessie Ellis (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Frank Feighan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Gary Gannon (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Brian Leddin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Eileen Flynn (Senator), Seanad; Tom Clonan (Senator), Seanad; Erin McGreehan (Senator), Seanad; Mary Seery Kearney (Senator), Seanad; Fiona O'Loughlin (Senator), Seanad
Intent: Invitation to Minister Rabbitte and members of hte Oireachtas Disability Matters Committee to attend launch to learn more about our position paper on Disability Services https://ilmi.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/A-Manifesto-for-Change-Disabled-People-Taking-Control.pdf
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Invitation to the launch of ILMI's 'A manifesto for change' in IHREC on 31st July 2024 |
2024-09-06
Politician(s) lobbied: Mary Lou McDonald (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pauline Tully (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: ILMI as a Disabled Persons Organisation (DPO) to present 'Invest in Inclusion' key policy asks to Sinn Fein in relation to disability policy
Methods: Virtual Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | DPO meeting with Sinn Fein on priority budgetary asks for budget 2025 |
2024-09-06
Politician(s) lobbied: Pauline Tully (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; David Cullinane (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mark Ward (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ruairí Ó Murchú (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Joe O'Reilly (Senator), Seanad; Malcolm Byrne (Senator), Seanad; Tom Clonan (Senator), Seanad; Violet Anne Wynne (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Gino Kenny (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Seán Canney (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Denis Naughten (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Cathal Berry (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Matt Shanahan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Verona Murphy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Holly Cairns (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Cian O'Callaghan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Róisín Shorthall (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Collective ODG asks to inform budget 2025
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Oireachtas Disability Group (ODG) lobbying day to present collective budget asks for budget 2025 |
2024-09-06
Politician(s) lobbied: Eileen Flynn (Senator), Seanad; Thomas Pringle (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Marian Harkin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pauline Tully (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mary Seery Kearney (Senator), Seanad; Diarmuid Wilson (Senator), Seanad; Brendan Smith (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Fiona O'Loughlin (Senator), Seanad; Johnny Guirke (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Michael Moynihan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Martin Browne (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Identify key ILMI policy issues as identified as members to inform development of prebudget estimates as well as etablish greater need for political parties to engage with Disabled Persons Organisations (DPOs)
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Launch of ILMI pre budget submission Invest in Inclusion in Oireachtas AV room with additional policy paper 'Disability |
| — | Politicians and Political Parties' |
2024-05-17
Politician(s) lobbied: Pauline Tully (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Eileen Flynn (Senator), Seanad; Alice-Mary Higgins (Senator), Seanad; Mary Seery Kearney (Senator), Seanad; Lynn Boylan (Senator), Seanad; Erin McGreehan (Senator), Seanad; Roderic O'Gorman (Minister), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Intent: Strong political support that 'care' would not refer to disabled people being 'looked after' but that the referendum debate should focus on agency and choice and the need for personal assistance for disabled people
Methods: Email, Phone call
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | emails sent to clarify how disabled people's rights under the UNCRPD and specifically in relation to Personal Assistance would be enhanced and not undermined by proposed wording the Care Referendum debtes |
2024-05-17
Politician(s) lobbied: Roderic O'Gorman (Minister), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Intent: Support for the development of a system and structure to deliver Personal Assistance to disabled people in Ireland consistent with the UNCRPD
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Discussion on the right to personal assistance |
| — | the potential impact of the referendum on access to personal assistance and the need for a national PAS system to be developed |
2024-05-17
Politician(s) lobbied: Roderic O'Gorman (Minister), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Intent: Clarification on timeline for publishing heads of bill, definition of socioeconomic status
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | The review of the Equality Legislation and specifically the addition of a ground of socioeconomic status |
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