Politician(s) lobbied: Alice-Mary Higgins (Senator), Seanad; Jennifer Whitmore (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pa Daly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Clendennen (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Naoise O'Cearúil (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mark Duffy (Senator), Seanad; Noel O'Donovan (Senator), Seanad; Malcolm Noonan (Senator), Seanad; Ciarán Ahern (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Réada Cronin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Barry Heneghan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Roderic O'Gorman (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Naoise Ó Muirí (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Rejection of long-term lock-in to LNG and to ensure compliance with climate law
Methods: EmailMeeting
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Email
Email to Committee members and advisor re production of Committee's PLS report & recommendations
Email
Email to Committee members regarding presentation to Oireachtas Committee on 5 Feb
Email
Emails to Climate Committee regarding Minister's request for climate committee to not undertake pre-legislative scrutiny of the bill
Email
Emails to Committee members regarding expert witnesses for Committee sessions
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Meetings with Pa Daly, Reada Cronin (17 Feb) Ciaran Ahern (31 March) Malcolm Noonan, Roderic O'Gorman (12 March)
Politician(s) lobbied: Darragh O'Brien (Minister), Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment; Aine Doyle (Special Adviser), Department of Environment, Climate and Communications; Jennifer Whitmore (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ciarán Ahern (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Réada Cronin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pa Daly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Malcolm Noonan (Senator), Seanad; Alice-Mary Higgins (Senator), Seanad; Roderic O'Gorman (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: For Government to adhere with Climate Law and Programme for Government commitments
Methods: EmailMeeting
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Email to Deputy O'Gorman regarding Green Party Earth Day motion
Meeting
Env Pillar meeting with Minister O'Brien and special advisor - 18 March
Meeting
FoE meeting with Minister O'Brien and special advisor - 10 Feb
Email
To Committee members regarding Oireachtas Committee meeting with IAE and Eng Ireland
Politician(s) lobbied: Eileen Flynn (Senator), Seanad; Patricia Stephenson (Senator), Seanad; Réada Cronin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Conor Sheehan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Roderic O'Gorman (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jennifer Whitmore (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Paul Murphy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Richard Boyd Barrett (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Peadar Tóibín (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Louis O'Hara (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Joe Neville (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Clendennen (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Cathal Byrne (Senator), Seanad; Ollie Crowe (Senator), Seanad; Aidan Davitt (Senator), Seanad; Shay Brennan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: To reject Govt decision to remove climate law obligations in the Bill and Govt decision to not undertake Pre Legislative Scrutiny
Methods: Email
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Emails to Infrastructure Committee members re Govt request to not do PLS on General Schemeu
Email
Emails to Infrastructure Committee memberswith briefing re need for amendments to reject Govt proposal to remove climate law obligation
Politician(s) lobbied: Roderic O'Gorman (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Darragh O'Brien (Minister), Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment; Aine Doyle (Special Adviser), Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment
Intent: Government's Energy Affordability Taskforce should meet with civil society; clarity on Government's production of a new Energy Affordability Action Plan
Methods: LetterEmail
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Letter sent to Minister O'Brien from multiple CSOs requesting meeting with NEAT
Email
Requested PQs on timeline of EAAP
Politician(s) lobbied: Pa Daly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Paul Murphy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Richard Boyd Barrett (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ivana Bacik (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ciarán Ahern (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Peadar Tóibín (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pearse Doherty (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Roderic O'Gorman (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Malcolm Noonan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jennifer Whitmore (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Shared Friends of the Earth response to government package in response to energy crisis
Methods: MeetingEmail
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Meeting
Met Ciaran Ahern to discuss same
Email
Response shared by email
Politician(s) lobbied: Darragh O'Brien (Minister), Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment
Intent: Government's delay in producing Social Climate Plan in accordance with EU obligations
Methods: Letter
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Co-signed letter to Minster O'Brien
Politician(s) lobbied: Roderic O'Gorman (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Rejection of provision in bill which proposes to remove obligation re adherence with s.15 of climate law
Methods: Email
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Email
Emails with Deputy O'Gorman regarding weaknesses in general scheme
Politician(s) lobbied: Naoise Ó Muirí (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Naoise O'Cearúil (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Alice-Mary Higgins (Senator), Seanad; Malcolm Noonan (Senator), Seanad; Jennifer Whitmore (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ciarán Ahern (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pa Daly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Réada Cronin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Malcolm Byrne (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Clendennen (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Barry Heneghan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jennifer Whitmore (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Lorraine Clifford-Lee (Senator), Seanad; Mark Duffy (Senator), Seanad; Alice-Mary Higgins (Senator), Seanad; Noel O'Donovan (Senator), Seanad
Intent: Private Wires Bill does not allow runaway data centre expansion and fossil fuel lock-in
Methods: EmailMeeting
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Emails to Deputies Cronin and Daly regarding the Private Wires Bill, Carbon Budgets 3 and 4, and the Strategic Gas (Emergency Reserve) Bill
Meeting
Meeting with Deputies Daly and Cronin in Leinster House on 17/02 discussing energy policy and legislation
Meeting
Meeting with Deputiy Ahern in Leinster House on 31/03 discussing energy policy and legislation
Email
To all Committee members on recommendations for PLS report
Politician(s) lobbied: Paul Murphy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Sharing recently published research to give context for environmental context of AI
Methods: Email
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Forwarding on research commissioned by Beyond Fossil Fuels and Friends of the Earth USA on AI's environmental footprint
Politician(s) lobbied: Malcolm Byrne (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Barry Heneghan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Naoise Ó Muirí (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Lorraine Clifford-Lee (Senator), Seanad; Alice-Mary Higgins (Senator), Seanad; Noel O'Donovan (Senator), Seanad; Ciarán Ahern (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Clendennen (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Réada Cronin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pa Daly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jennifer Whitmore (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Increased environmental and consumer protections in pre-legislative report of Private Wires Bill
Methods: Email
