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Intent: Secure funding for budget measures
Details: Sought support for the CTTC's budget proposals to secure sustainability supports, VAT-71 modernisation, free fares for under-9s, and school transport funding idexation
Intent: Secure funding for budget measures
Details: Sought support for the CTTC's budget proposals to secure sustainability supports, VAT-71 modernisation, free fares for under-9s, and school transport funding idexation
Intent: Inform Oireachtas members of priorities for Budget 2027.
Details: All Oireachtas members were invited to the launch of Budget Choices 2027, and subsequently sent electronic copies of Budget Choices 2027 and supporting reports on Benchmarking Social Welfare Rates and Distributive Impacts of Budget Policy
Intent: Support from government and opposition TDs in relation to funding for primary and secondary school libraries
Details: Emails and mailout to government and opposition TDs and Senators on the subject of funding for school libraries, briefing event for TDs and Senators on same in Leinster House
Intent: Additional resources and related policy changes focused on addressing homelessness, domestic abuse and the needs of older people and supporting the community and voluntary sector to be included in Budget 2027
Details: Budget 2027 Submission detailing a range of recommendations relating to the areas of work of COPE Galway on homelessness, domestic abuse and older people, and for the Community and Voluntary Sector, seeking the allocation of additional resources and related policy changes
Intent: To contribute to the Committee's examination of Inclusive Education and to provide the operational experience of practising Principals. The central thesis of our submission attests that the next phase of Inclusive Education should not focus on simply additional investment but should centre on strengthening the systems that underpin inclusive education, and that at the heart of this challenge lies an 'information gap' between schools and the Department.
Details: We were invited to be witness before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth on 2nd of July 2026. This meeting was to discuss Inclusive Education: Allocation, Role and Training Needs of Special Education Teachers (SETs) and Special Needs Assistants. We forwarded a detailed and comprehe, ...
Intent: We met with DPOs to discuss a range of issues affecting the LGBTQI+ community under the National LGBTQI+ Inclusion Strategy, including access to equal education and healthcare, and rising attacks and hate towards LGBTQI+ individuals.
Details: Meeting with DPOs to discuss issues affecting the LGBTQI+ Community
Intent: In one case for disability allowance to be reinstated.In another case for reasonable accommodations to be make for a Deaf person doing a driver theory test.
Details: Contact with several TDs advocating for Deaf people
Intent: For Budget 2027, we are calling for urgent investment to tackle overcrowded classroomsand teacher shortages.For Government to make a commitment to provide 1,000 new teaching posts in2026/2027.An end to oversized classes, and an end to substitute roles being covered by unqualifiedpersonnel.
Details: To provide briefing on the INTO Budget Asks and ask to table a motion in support of INTO Pre Budget Briefing
Intent: Outlined the need for addtional Information Officers to deliver the Citizens Information Service across the country. Intended result is increased funding from Department of Social Protection to employ additional Information Officers.
Details: Outlined the need for additional Information Officers to elected representatives (TDs & Senators) in Galway, Mayo and Roscommon.
