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2026-01-15
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2025-09-19
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Politician(s) lobbied: Tom Clonan (Senator), Seanad
Intent: Inform Senator Tom Clonan about the work of the National Advocacy Service for People with Disabilities (NAS) and discuss NAS resourcing.
Methods: Virtual Meeting
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Virtual Meeting
Joanne Condon, National Manager at the National Advocacy Service for People with Disabilities (NAS), and Suzy Byrne, Regional Manager for the Greater Dublin Region at NAS, met with Senator Tom Clonan online on 13th May. They discussed the work of NAS and NAS resourcing.
2025-05-07
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Politician(s) lobbied: Micheál Martin (An Taoiseach), Department of the Taoiseach
Intent: To increase awareness of our service and what we do, and to inform him and the unit of our call for a Strategy for Independent Advocacy in Ireland. We also offered our support of their work.
Methods: EmailLetter
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I emailed the new Unit on Disability within the Department of the Taoiseach to introduce ourselves as a service, offer our support with their work, and to inform them of our call for a Strategy on Independent Advocacy in Ireland.
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I sent a letter addressed to the Taoiseach and the new Unit on Disability within the Department of the Taoiseach to introduce ourselves as a service, offer our support with their work, and to inform them of our call for a Strategy on Independent Advocacy in Ireland.
2025-05-07
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Politician(s) lobbied: Laura Harmon (Senator), Seanad; Ruairí Ó Murchú (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Cathal McCann (Political Director), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Sarah Lyons (Special Adviser), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Eamon Murphy (Political Director), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Peter Harper (Political Director), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Miriam Murphy (Political Director), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Tom Clonan (Senator), Seanad
Intent: To increase awareness of our service and what we do, and to inform the policy teams of our resourcing issue with a view to putting this issue on the political agenda. Our ultimate goal is to increase the funding of our service.
Methods: EmailVirtual Meeting
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I emailed the Policy teams within each political party - Fine Fail, Fine Gael, Social Democrats, Labour and Sinn Fein to arrange a meeting with them to discuss our service, what we do, and to inform them of the resourcing issue within our service. I also emailed Senator Tom Clonan requesting a meeting re same.
Virtual Meeting
My colleague and I, NAS National Manager Joanne Condon, met with the policy officers/advisors/teams of the following political parties: Sinn Fein, Fine Fail, Fine Gael, Labour, Social Democrats. We also met with the Sinn Fein Disability Spokesperson and the Labour Disability Spokesperson for the same reasons.
2025-05-07
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Politician(s) lobbied: Sarah O'Brien (Assistant Secretaries or Equivalent Grades), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Intent: To make a submission to the development of the National Disability Strategy which is currently being drafted. We wanted a line included about the importance of and future resourcing of independent advocacy and our service.
Methods: EmailMeeting
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Email
I emailed the Assistant Principal in the Department to ask if we could schedule an online meeting to discuss our service and submission to the Strategy.
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I met with the Assistant Principal online on a video meeting to discuss our service, what we do, and what we would like to see included in the upcoming National Disability Strategy.
2025-01-20
39 officials
Politician(s) lobbied: Frank Feighan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Paul O'Shea (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jerry Buttimer (Senator), Seanad; Grace Boland (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Seamus McGrath (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Tom Brabazon (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Thomas Gould (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Martin Heydon (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Cummins (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jack Chambers (Minister), Department of Finance; Darragh O'Brien (Minister), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Helen McEntee (Minister), Department of Justice; Paschal Donohoe (Minister), Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform; Norma Foley (Minister), Department of Education; Mary Butler (Minister of State), Department of Health; James Lawless (Minister of State), Department of Transport; James Browne (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Holly Cairns (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Emer Higgins (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Michael Moynihan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Erin McGreehan (Senator), Seanad; Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Majella Fitzpatrick (Special Adviser), Department of the Taoiseach; Padráig Mac Lochlainn (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Denise Mitchell (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Eoin Ó Broin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ivana Bacik (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Malcolm Byrne (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Sinéad Gibney (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Rory Hearne (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Liam Quaide (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pádraig Rice (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Cian O'Callaghan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Eoin Hayes (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Marian Harkin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Marie Sherlock (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ged Nash (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Have a mention of NAS included in the Programme for Government 2025, in terms of committing to adequate resourcing of independent advocacy to ensure persons with disabilities, who require support to do so, can exercise their rights under the CRPD.::Intended to secure support from politicians with our call to Government, by way of their raising our point for inclusion in the Programme for Government.
Methods: Informal communicationEmail
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Informal communication
Regional Manager for the Greater Dublin Region sent an informal text message to a DPO indicating that NAS was seeking support regarding the Programme for Government 2025 ask, and asking if she could connect them to NAS National Manger to discuss the Programme for Government negotiations.
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Sent individual emails congratulating each DPO on their election/re-election. I then ask them for support regarding the Programme for Government 2025.
2024-09-19
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2024-05-16
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2024-01-09
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