Helen McEntee

Intent: Key priorities to be identified and addressed in Budget 2027

Details: Construction specific funding model for AHBs. A cost recovery for CAS/CLSS units. Addressing gearing for AHB's. CALF Funding. CREL Funding and cost rental viability. Funding of communal and community facilities. Addressing fuel poverty. A multidisciplinary approach to address family homelessness.Imp, ... Read more

Intent: Awareness of and support for Dochas' priorities for Ireland's EU Presidency policy programme

Details: Dochas' EU Presidency Priorities

Intent: The proposals presented in FCIs Pre-Budget Submission adopted in Budget 2027

Details: Invitation to attend Carers’ Priorities for Budget 2027 Town Halls events taking place from Aug 31 to September 14 in 19 locations across the country.

Intent: Called on the Government to withdraw the Bill before Seanad Éireann and urged Senators and all members of the Oireachtas to oppose it due to concerns over its ISDS clauses and the trade agreements it would facilitate. Also called for rejection of trade agreements containing ISDS provisions and for Ireland to use its influence to promote more progressive EU trade policy.

Details: Arbitration (Amendment) Bill 2025

Intent: Increased awareness among decision makers in the areas of TUSLA Child & Family Services, Education, HSE Disability. Irish Youth Justice and Mental Health as well as relevant peer organisations about the work that YAP Ireland does and the strong outcomes that we achieve with young people and families.

Details: YAP Ireland National Event 2026

Intent: Given its EU Presidency, call for Ireland to facilitate EU discussions on measures to support the ICC and the broader international justice ecosystem, including, for example, putting the issue on the agenda of upcoming COREPER and Gymnich meetings

Details: Sharing letter from our European Institutions Office urging the EU and its member states, including Ireland, to stand unequivocally in defence of international law and justice in response to the US State Department’s escalating campaign against the International Criminal Court

Intent: Express deep concern that, almost four months after we and Human Rights First wrote seeking answers to our detailed questions, we have not received responses from either Minister; and again call on Ireland to take measures to ensure that the Trump administration's unlawful and inhumane mass deportation campaign is denied any form of facilitation, cooperation or tolerance by Ireland.

Details: Email in follow-up to our 12 March joint letter with US-based NGO Human Rights First seeking answers on the US administration's use of Shannon Airport as a refueling stopover for ICE unlawful removal flights to third countries

Intent: To have the members speak at upcoming EU Presidency Conference held by Ruhama

Details: Invitation to speak at upcoming EU Presidency Conference held by Ruhama

Intent: Request that the Ministers clarify their positions on the issues raised, including Ireland's risking complicity in genocide, and describe the measures taken to ensure proper human rights compliant due diligence in approving the Israel Bonds prospectus as required by the EU Prospectus Regulation, the transfer of the approval to the CSSF in Luxembourg in 2025, and the fact that Ireland remains the ‘EU home state’ for these bonds. Responses were also sought to a set of detailed questions.

Details: Letter to each Minister setting out relevant international legal obligations of the Irish state and its organs, including the Central Bank of Ireland, in particular pertaining to the obligation not to render aid or assistance in maintaining Israel's unlawful occupation of the OPT, and potential comp, ... Read more

Intent: Urge the Government to put human rights, justice and accountability at the centre of EU foreign policy, including by ensuring the EU-Israel Association Agreement is suspended; lead on effective and sustainable asylum and migration policies, centred on human rights; uphold human rights and rule at law across the EU ensuring people can live in dignity, equality, and security; and strengthen technology safeguards, prevent harm, and ensure corporate interests do not override people’s rights.

Details: Joint letter from Amnesty International's EU office and Irish section to the Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union with detailed recommendations for action on human rights, justice and accountability in EU foreign and internal policy