Irish Development Education Association

Emails to Senator Patricia Stephenson to set up a meeting. Meeting followed on 30 April

Meeting with Patricia Stephenson in Leinster House 30 April

IDEA signed a letter addressed to all TDs and Senators hand-delivered to Senators Lynn Ruane, Alice-Mary Higgins and Frances Black on 17 September, urging them Publicly declare support for Ireland’s membership of the Hague Group;Advocate within your party and in Government for Ireland to sign the six pledges; andEnsure that Ireland formally joins the Hague Group before the 20 September deadline.

IDEA signed a letter sent to Taoiseach and Tánaiste signed by 31 civil society actors on 9 September, urging the Irish Government to advocate at the UNGA for the passing of a Uniting for Peace Resolution for invention in Gaza to protect civilians and prevent further loss of civilian life and further destruction in Gaza . See more information here: https://comhlamh.org/blog/comhlamh-joins-the-call-on-the-government-to-demand-an-emergency-special-session-at-the-un-to-protect-people-in-gaza/

Launch event of our new vision and roadmap for Global Citizenship Education on 21 October in Buswells Hotel, Dublin. Attendance of 3 TDs and 1 Senator and parliamentary assistants of 1 further TD (Duncan Smith) and 1 further Senator (Nessa Cosgrove)

Phone calls to parliamentarians who said they intended on attending the launch event of our new vision and roadmap, to check if they were still able to attend between 10 - 20 October

We contacted Senator Fiona O' Loughlin informally to ask if she could speak at our launch event (September)

We emailed 2 TDs on 20 October, the day before the launch event to try to increase number of TDs attending (Patricia Stephenson and Barry Ward)

We sent a digital and hard copy of our new vision and roadmap for Global Citizenship Education to select TDs and Senators following the launch event on 25 November (one batch) and 18 December (2nd batch)

Held a virtual briefing for selected TDs and Senators on 1 October. Diego Keegan, the Parliamentary Assistant of Darren O'Rourke attended.

Sent the Pre Budget Submission and our new vision document to Lynn Boyan MEP on 1 October and invited her to attend the launch of our new vision doucment on 21 October

Sent the Pre Budget Submission to all select TDs and Senators on 15-17 September and invited them to an online briefing (1 October) to discuss the Pre Budget Submission and an invitation to attend the launch of our new vision document on 21 October

Sent the Pre Budget Submission to the Chair of the Joint Oirechtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade on 26 September and invited him to an online briefing (1 October) to discuss the Pre Budget Submission and an invited him to attend the launch of our new vision document on 21 October

Letter to Governor of Central Bank asking him not to renew the Israel bond prospectus on 2 September. Sent on 28 August

Sent the Pre Budget Submission to select Ministers and asked them for a meeting to discuss on 29 and 30 July

Letter to the Taoiseach in February on behalf of the IDEA Development Education on Palestine Working Group to point out how the IHRA definition undermines the ability of educators to carry out development education on Palestine and to request the Taoiseach withdraws support for this definition and adopts instead the Jerusalem definition on anti-semitism. Letter to Laurence Simms in March to request he bring to the Taoiseach's attention that the IHRA definition breaches the Good Friday Agreement

Letter to Mr. Laurence Simms on 31 March on behalf of the IDEA Development Education on Palestine Working Group to point out how the IHRA definition on anti-semitism is incongruent with the Government's obligations under the Good Friday Agreement and to request that Mr. Simms raise this matter within the Department of Foreign Affairs.

On 19 March, IDEA sent an email to the Taoiseach, Tánaiste and the Minster for Education inviting them to become Global Education Champions