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2025-01-16
Politician(s) lobbied: Simon Harris (An Taoiseach), Department of the Taoiseach
Intent: To emphasise the importance of the Child Poverty Unit and the need to ensure it's continued work and focus on Ireland's youngest and most vulnerable citizens, their rights under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and collaboration between The Ark and the Unit. The omportnace of the access to art and culture for children in poverty and the role that The Ark can play in enabling these children's rights to art and culture to be realised.
Methods: Event / Reception, Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Spoke with An Taoiseach Simon Harris in relation to The Ark Children's Cultural Centre and the Child Poverty Unit in the Taoiseach's Department |
2025-01-16
Politician(s) lobbied: Simon Harris (An Taoiseach), Department of the Taoiseach; Roderic O'Gorman (Minister), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth; David Delaney (Assistant Secretary), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Intent: Implementation of the International Protection Child Payment
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Joint letter calling for the implementation of the International Protection Child Payment |
2025-01-16
Politician(s) lobbied: Simon Harris (An Taoiseach), Department of the Taoiseach; Roderic O'Gorman (Minister), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth; Micheál Martin (Tánaiste and Minister), Department of Foreign Affairs
Intent: Increase for a Qualified Child (IQC payment) in Budget 2025
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Joint letter on the call to raise the Increase for a Qualified Child (IQC payment) in Budget 2025. |
2025-01-16
Politician(s) lobbied: Elizabeth Canavan (Assistant Secretary), Department of the Taoiseach
Intent: The aim of the meeting was to explore and establish areas of shared interest and concern and to ensure that children's participation in art and culture is central to any strategy to eliminate child poverty.
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | The meeting took place following an email from Ark Chair |
| — | Carol Fawsitt |
| — | to request that the Child Poverty Unit |
| — | based in the Department of the Taoiseach |
| — | is continued |
| — | is made a permanent fixture and is fully supported. The meeting was scheduled in order to explore the possibilities for The Ark and the Child Poverty Unit to collaborate in realising children's right to art and culture. regardless of background or circumstance. |
2022-08-06
Politician(s) lobbied: Anne Rabbitte (Minister of State), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Intent: Review of the apparent anomaly in the treatment of disabled artists in receipt of disability payments compared to disabled academics who can receive publicly funded scholarships or grants without impacting their entitlements since the recent introduction of Catherine’s Law.
Methods: Virtual Meeting, Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Written submission to Minister Anne Rabbitte outlining The Ark's experience of the systematic impediments to the full participation of disabled artists in the arts. It outlined a particular anomaly in Social Protection regulations which prevents artists in receipt of disability payments from taking up publicly funded grants |
| — | bursaries or residencies without impacting their entitlements. |
2022-05-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Tom Clonan (Senator), Seanad
Intent: To raise awareness of this issue in order to affect change in the treatment of artists bursaries/grants as 'means', to remove the income disregard and to review whether an equivalent measure such as 'Catherine's Law' could be introduced to allow disabled artists to earn from their work while also retaining their disability and related supports.
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Met with Senator Tom Clonan with artist Emilie Conway to draw his attention to: a) The systemic barriers which prevent disabled artists from working in the arts on an equal basis with their non-disabled peers. b) The systemic barriers inherent in the Social Protection system which prevent arts organisations from the full implementation of Equality |
| — | Diversity and Inclusion policies in relation to the employment of disabled artists. |
2022-01-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Holly Cairns (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Seán Canney (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Emer Higgins (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Neasa Hourigan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Michael Moynihan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Paul Phelan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pauline Tully (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Violet Anne Wynne (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Alice-Mary Higgins (Senator), Seanad; Erin McGreehan (Senator), Seanad; Fiona O'Loughlin (Senator), Seanad; Mary Seery Kearney (Senator), Seanad
Intent: Review of the apparent anomaly in the treatment of disabled artists in receipt of disability payments compared to disabled academics who can receive publicly funded scholarships or grants without impacting their entitlements since the recent introduction of Catherine’s Law.::Change in Social Protection regulations to enable artists to pursue and receive publicly funded bursaries or grants without impacting their disability payments.
Methods: Submission
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Written submission to the Joint Committee on Disability Matters outlining The Ark's experience of the systematic impediments to the full participation of disabled artists in the arts. It encouraged the Committee to investigate the apparent anomaly in Social Protection regulations which prevents artists in receipt of disability payments from taking up publicly funded grants |
| — | bursaries or residencies without impacting their entitlements. |