Intent: To raise the issue that the ESB contractors on offshore islands have been severly restricted in what maintenance and repairs they can perform on offshore islands since 1st January 2026. This will severly impact the residents with long power outages on offshore islands.
Details: ESB Service on offshore islands
Intent: Government support for a national rollout of GIY;s GROW at School program
Details: Lobbying around a pre-budget submission by GIY for support for a national rollout of GROW a School education programme
Intent: Information Gathering
Details: SME Conference
Intent: Engagement with Oireachtas members and Government Ministers in advance of Budget 2026 on the following national and regional priorities:Housing delivery and infrastructure investment.Skills development and training pathways to support enterprise.Energy and grid capacity, including renewables integration.Measures to support competitiveness for FDI and indigenous business.
Details: Chambers Budget 2026 Advocacy Day
Intent: INTO calls for a two-point reduction in primary class sizes this year. This would require 750 teaching posts many of which would not be new posts but rather would be retained posts that otherwise will be lost.Reducing class sizes by two pupils would have a transformative effect on primaryeducation. It would allow teachers to better respond to the wide and evolving range of pupil's needs in classrooms and assist with the enactment of the new curriculum.
Details: Letter to Tanaiste Chambers regarding report in the Irish Times today (01/10/25) that decisions his Department may be obstructing the hiring of additional teachers and staff, with the result that progress towards reducing class sizes could be delayed.
Intent: Improvements in the primary school staffing schedule.
Details: Conversation regarding the primary school staffing schedule and improvements sought in Budget 2026.
Intent: To request an urgent meeting with the Minister and the HSE to discuss our concerns and identify solutions to manage clinical risk, to ensure that the protocol is implementable for our members and to ensure appropriate assessment and intervention pathways for autistic people.
Details: 'IASLT alongside colleagues from PSI, AOTI, IASW, INDI wrote to the Mnister highlight our collective concerns about the HSE’s draft Autism Assessment & Intervention Pathway Protocol and to request an urgent meeting.'
Intent: Increased resources and focus on climate literacy and education along with awareness on the new CASD subject.
Details: Climate Literacy and Education
Intent: Increased funding to climate literacy and education
Details: Climate Literacy and Education
Intent: To keep lines of communications open and keep all parties informed on the NISA project developments.
Details: Project updates on NISA and June Newsletter
