Intent: Greater awareness of the extent of the housing and homeless crisis in Cork / Southwest and Cork SImon's work over the past 50 years to addess it.
Details: The Housing and Homeless crisis in Cork / Southwest
Intent: Clarification with regard to core funding for 2019
Details: Annual Core Funding for CEF
Intent: A greater appreciation fot he curent situation regarding the housing and homelessness crisis in Cork.
Details: Invitation to launch of Annual Report 2017 - details of the current situation regarding the housing and homelessness crisis in Cork.
Intent: To secure more inclusive, constructive and well resourced social protection, education and training and employment policies and outcomes.
Details: Key issues for unemployed people; their personal experiences and impact of unemployment; work that organisations are undertaking to address these issues.
Intent: To assess if Budget 2019 would lead to better outcomes for unemployed people and others of working age, including increased social welfare rates and whether other supports and employment services will meet people's needs and support the realisation of their ambitions.
Details: In mid-October the INOU's 2019 initial Post-Budget analysis was published on-line and distributed.
Intent: To secure more inclusive, constructive and well resourced social protection, education and training and employment policies and outcomes.
Details: Key issues for unemployed people; their personal experiences and impact of unemployment; work that organisations are undertaking to address these issues.
Intent: review of Traveller accommodation in County Cork, response to Travellers who had submitted housing complaints to Cork County Council and to get building work started on Ballydineen halting site
Details: Traveller accommodation programme
Intent: Attendance at our Annual Report 2017 Launch and a greater awareness of the issues relating to housing and homelessness in the South West.
Details: Invites to Launch of Cork Simon's Annual Reprot 2017 together with details of the report.
Intent: Seeking meeting and support of public representatives by signing a pledge document. The signed principles will be forwarded to the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Minister Zappone. We intend to petition the Minister to include these principles as part of any future Youth policy direction, investment and implement immediate changes required to ensure job retentions.
Details: Appropriate and continued Funding and Financing of Youth Work Services.
Intent: Restoration of the tax relief on union subscriptions in line with tax releief afforded to members of certain professional organisations, farmers and businesses.
Details: Tax relief on trade union subscriptions
