Children's Books Ireland CLG

Politician(s) lobbied: Hildegarde Naughton (Minister), Department of Education; Jen Cummins (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas

Intent: Support from government and opposition TDs in relation to funding for primary and secondary school libraries

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Unknown

Intent: Unknown

Methods: Unknown

Politician(s) lobbied: Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (MEP), European Parliament; Nina Carberry (MEP), European Parliament; Naoise Ó Muirí (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas

Intent: Support from government TDs and Irish MEPs on sustained funding for school libraries in Ireland.

Methods: Meeting

Politician(s) lobbied: Jack Chambers (Minister), Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform; Paschal Donohoe (Minister), Department of Finance; Helen McEntee (Minister), Department of Education; Cathal Crowe (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jen Cummins (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (MEP), European Parliament

Intent: Government and opposition party support for sustained and annual funding for school libraries in primary and secondary schools in Ireland.

Methods: MeetingEmail

Politician(s) lobbied: Helen McEntee (Minister), Department of Education; Michael Moynihan (Minister of State), Department of Education; Darren O'Rourke (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Claire Kerrane (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jen Cummins (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Eoghan Kenny (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Bernie McNally (Secretary General), Department of Education; Cathal Crowe (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas

Intent: Attendance at the Reading for Joy Forum by relevant government TDs and opposition spokespeople where the focus of discussion would be on the benefits of reading for joy and the ways in which government can support schools to put the reading lives of their pupils at the heart of their school experience.

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Barry Heneghan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Helen McEntee (Minister), Department of Education

Intent: A meeting where a member of the Independent Group could be briefed on the issues surrounding funding for school libraries in Ireland.

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Seán Canney (Minister of State), Department of Transport; Michael Lowry (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Kevin Boxer Moran (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Noel Grealish (Minister of State), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; Marian Harkin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Gillian Toole (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Barry Heneghan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas

Intent: A commitment to reinstate funding for school libraries in the programme for government, and a recognition of the importance of reading for joy for children and young people in educational settings as a means of overcoming social inequality.

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Naoise Ó Muirí (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas

Intent: Intended to gain the support of an elected government official and colleague of the Minister for Education for our campaign to reinstate school library funding on an ongoing basis

Methods: Meeting

Politician(s) lobbied: Richard Boyd Barrett (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Aine Doyle (Special Adviser), Department of Education; Malcolm Byrne (Senator), Seanad; Malcolm Byrne (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Niamh Smyth (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mary Seery Kearney (Senator), Seanad; Aisling Dolan (Senator), Seanad; Simon Harris (An Taoiseach), Department of the Taoiseach; Micheál Martin (Tánaiste and Minister), Department of Foreign Affairs; Marie Sherlock (Senator), Seanad; Marie Sherlock (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jack Chambers (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jack Chambers (Minister), Department of Finance; Paschal Donohoe (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Paschal Donohoe (Minister), Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform; Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Norma Foley (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mary Butler (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; James Lawless (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; James Browne (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ivana Bacik (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Martin Heydon (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Cummins (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Paul O'Shea (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Helen McEntee (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas

Intent: 1.Inclusion of support for reading for joy for children and young people in party election manifestos for General Election 2025. ::2. Establish a National Advisory Group on School Library Provision to develop a National Strategy for School Libraries, with the key aim of ensuring there is a School Library and a School Librarian in all Primary and Post Primary Schools by end of 2024, as recommended by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science in its Reports on Leaving Certificate Reform and on Mental Health Supports in Schools.::3. In the interim, expand both the Junior Certificate School Programme (JCSP) Demonstration Library Project and JCSP Digital Library Service as an urgent national priority, as recommended in the same reports and as per the 2005 DEIS plan.::4. Ensure that reading for joy is at the heart of the upcoming National Literacy, Numeracy and Digital Literacy Strategy, in order to increase motivation and eng

Methods: EmailInformal communication

Politician(s) lobbied: Gary Gannon (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas

Intent: 1. Invest €60m in Budget 2025 in books for children and young people to read for joy in schools and school libraries building on the foundations laid in Budget 2022.::2. Establish a National Advisory Group on School Library Provision to develop a National Strategy for School Libraries, with the key aim of ensuring there is a School Library and a School Librarian in all Primary and Post Primary Schools by end of 2024, as recommended by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science in its Reports on Leaving Certificate Reform and on Mental Health Supports in Schools.::3. In the interim, expand both the Junior Certificate School Programme (JCSP) Demonstration Library Project and JCSP Digital Library Service as an urgent national priority, as recommended in the same reports and as per the 2005 DEIS plan.::4. Ensure that reading for joy is at the heart of the upcoming National Literacy, Numeracy and Digital Literacy Strategy, in

Methods: Email