Politician(s) lobbied: Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Minister), Department of Health
Intent: A meeting to discuss and secure commitments on psychiatric care in prisons and the crisis of people with psychiatric needs in Irish prisons, updates on the National Forensic Mental Health Service, the proposed National Drugs Strategy, Ratification of the UN Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT) and health-led interventions for people in the criminal justice system with complex needs.
Methods: Letter
Politician(s) lobbied: Ruairí Ó Murchú (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ann Graves (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Paul O'Shea (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Lynn Ruane (Senator), Seanad; Máire Devine (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Marie Sherlock (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mary Fitzpatrick (Senator), Seanad; Nicole Ryan (Senator), Seanad; Teresa Costello (Senator), Seanad; Tom Brabazon (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Willie O'Dea (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Include progressive recommendations on the development of the Committee's report on drug policy
Methods: Letter
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Letter
This letter concerned the report of the Joint Committee on Drugs Use, providing recommendations on the de-criminalisation of drug use and a health-led approach to addiction.
Politician(s) lobbied: Una Doyle (Director), Probation Service
Intent: To determine the level of additional resources the extension of Community Service Orders may necessitate and how the Probation Service will achieve this.
Methods: Meeting
Politician(s) lobbied: Jim O'Callaghan (Minister), Department of Justice
Intent: Ministers consider conducting a review into the circumstances leading to the M9 crash and examinnig the young people's engagment with education, child welfare and outh justice services and the criminal justice system.
Methods: Letter
Politician(s) lobbied: Jim O'Callaghan (Minister), Department of Justice
Intent: Letter to Minister O'Callaghan to ask him to reconsider changes to criminal legal aid scheme given potential impact on people coming before the courts. Forwarded letter to Catherine Ardagh TD on 5 June following her appointment as Minister of State.
Methods: EmailLetter
Politician(s) lobbied: Ben Ryan (Assistant Secretary), Department of Justice
Intent: Asked to prioritise publication and enactment of Inspection of Detention Bill
Methods: Meeting
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Meeting
Meeting and follow-up correspondence
Politician(s) lobbied: Dara Calleary (Minister), Department of Social Protection; Craig Dwyer (Special Advisor), Department of Social Protection
Intent: Implement of recommendations from Paying the Price report including payment of One Parent Famly payment in first six months of partner's imprisonment, extension of Guardianship Payment to kinship carers of children with parent in prison, establishment of prison visit payment and inclusion of actions to support people with lived experience of prison in Social Inclusion Roadmap.
Methods: Meeting
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Meeting
Meeting in Leinster House, Kildare St., Dublin 2
Politician(s) lobbied: Mary Fitzpatrick (Senator), Seanad
Intent: Meeting with Minister Caroll MacNeill
Methods: Email
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Email
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Politician(s) lobbied: Barry Ward (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Nessa Cosgrove (Senator), Seanad
Intent: Meeting
Methods: Email
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Email
Agenda to include the establishment of an All-Party Oireachtas Group on Penal Reform and potential activities for the group
Politician(s) lobbied: Jim O'Callaghan (Minister), Department of Justice; Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Minister), Department of Health; Dara Calleary (Minister), Department of Social Protection; James Browne (Minister), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Doncha O’Sullivan (Assistant Secretary), Department of Justice; Doncha O'Sullivan (Secretary General), Department of Justice; Derek Tierney (Assistant Secretary), Department of Health; John McKeon (Secretary General), Department of Social Protection; Graham Doyle (Secretary General), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Intent: Resources allocated to the criminal justice system may be diverted to other departments of government for a more holistic appraoch to social issues and investment in underserved communities
Methods: Email
