Sage Advocacy
2025-09-22
Intent: To develop awareness of the services provided by Sage Advocacy
Details: Information regarding the advocacy supports provided by Sage Advocacy for survivors of institutional abuse.
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Email
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Senator
Most Recent Public Body
Seanad
First Seen
18 October 2015
Last Seen
22 September 2025
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Dublin City CouncilDáil Éireann, the OireachtasSeanad
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Lir Communications Ltd
2025-09-20
Current/Former DPOFAQ
Intent: Raise awareness about Explorium's successful visitor numbers in one year since reopening, new programmes and initiatives planned in the coming months, and to highlight Explorium's potential as a national resource.
Details: Letter requesting a meeting to highlight Explorium’s positive role in science education for children and young people and its potential as a national resource.
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EmailInformal communicationMeeting
Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC)
2025-09-20
Intent: To seek support for FLAC's proposed amendments to the 2025 Bill
Details: Bereaved Partner’s Bill 2025
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Additional info: Follow up email to Senator Eileen Flynn on 8 July 2025 signaling our availability to discuss the legislation with her. - EmailDirect emails sent to members of the Oireachtas on 26 June 2025 to invite members of the Oireachtas to a FLAC briefing concerning the 2025 Bill. - EmailEmail of 14 May 2025 to Dara Calleary TD, Minister for Social Protection, following up on earlier letter sent by FLAC seeking a meeting with him to seek the Minister's support for FLAC's proposed amendments to the 2025 Bill. - Email
Transgender Equality Network Ireland
2025-09-19
Intent: We wanted to arrange an AV Room briefing to highlight gaps in access to the Gender Recognition Act
Details: TENI advocates for equal rights and access to healthcare for trans people.
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17th July - exchanged text messages with Padraig Rice TD to arrange an AV Room briefing in September - Informal communication
Transgender Equality Network Ireland
2025-09-19
Intent: We intended to inform DPOs of the current crisis in gender affirming care to better equip them in future planning on new models of care. ::We intended to inform Minister Carroll MacNeil on other issues regarding LGBTQI+ Healthcare, including mental health and elderly care.
Details: TENI advocates for equal rights and access to healthcare for trans people.
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Methods
12th May - text messages exchanged with Padraig Rice on healthcare questions for Minister for Health - Informal communication16th May - Meeting with Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeil on LGBTQI+ health issues. These issues included gender affirming care, lgbtqia+ mental health, and elderly care. Follow up meetings were also planned in this meeting, though have not taken place as of the end of this lobbying log period - Meeting1st May - Meeting with Mary Lou McDonald and David Cullinane, seeking clarity on SF comments regarding the UK Supreme Court decision on gender, updates on transgender healthcare both Ireland and Northern Ireland, and wider LGBTQ issues - Meeting
Intent: Meetings to discuss the EU -MFF proposal over the coming months
Details: Follow-up emails to a discussion at a meeting of the Joint Committee of European Union Affairs, with meeting requests
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Follow-up emails to request further meetings to discuss the EU-Multiannual Financial Framework and civil society concerns on some of its elements - Email
Intent: To provide information to the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs in relation to the LGBTQI+ rights situation in Hungary, and outline key recommendations for action needed to support the LGBTQI+ community in Hungary, in order to help inform any future engagement it may have on these issues
Details: Submission to the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs in relation to the LGBTQI+ rights situation in Hungary.
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At the invitation of the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs, provided a submission in relation to the LGBTQI+ rights situation in Hungary, in order to help inform any future engagement the Committee may have on the issue - Submission
Irish Wildbird Conservancy
2025-09-19
Intent: To raise awareness about the newly identified Important Bird Areas for seabirds in Ireland
Details: Important Bird Areas for Seabirds in Ireland
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An invitation to attend the launch of the Important Bird Areas for seabirds in Ireland on World Seabird Day 2025 in Dublin and to raise awareness of the need to designate these areas as Special Protection Areas for birds. - EmailInviting An Taoiseach Micheál Martin to launch the Important Bird Areas for Seabirds. Inviting Minister for Nature, Christopher O'Sullivan to launch the Important Bird Areas for Seabirds. - Letter
Intent: Discucc civil society concerns in regard to the forthcoming MFF negotations
Details: EU Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF)
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Methods
Presentation and discussion at a meeting of the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs - Meeting
Mental Health Reform
2025-09-18
Intent: Amendments to the Bill at Committee and Report Stage
Details: The Mental Health Bill
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Discussion about report stage amendments with Liam Quaide on 27th June 2025 - Phone callDiscussion of concerns relating to the bill. Meeting was held on 29th July 2025 with James Kelly and Ian Power - MeetingEmail about report stage amendments sent to Sorca Clarke TD on 27th June 2025 - Email
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