Kathleen Stack

Intent: Participation in Conference on the Sustainable Development Goals::Greater dialogue and awareness on the Sustainable Development Goals

Details: Sustainable Development Goals

Intent: engagement with Minister

Details: to raise concerns with regard to new sickness certification forms

Intent: To engage with the DEASP to secure better outcomes on issues affecting unemployed people and others reliant on social protection payments and support services.

Details: The INOU was part of a delegation from the Community and Voluntary Pillar that met with officials from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection to discuss a range of issues including: income adequacy; activation and employment; improving service provision; social inclusion and pov, ... Read more

Intent: To secure information, seek clarification and seek to influence policy re youth issues

Details: Community and Voluntary Pillar Bilateral Meeting with Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

Intent: Raise awareness on Age Action Budget 2019 priorities and overall work programme

Details: Bilateral meeting on 5th June 2018 between the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection and the Community and Voluntary Pillar

Intent: Highlight issues around social welfare for people living in rural areas

Details: Community and Voluntary Pillar Bi-Lateral Meeting with Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

Intent: To influence policy to improve state pensions, a reversal of the 2012 changes & increased access for older people to pensions.::To ensure that the Telephone Allowance measures in Budget 2018 were being implemented.::Agreement on a cold weather protocol whereby additional payments are made once temperatures drop below the protocol level.::That Older People wishing to retrain and/or return to work are given the same opportunities as all other categories.

Details: Meeting with Department of Employment & Social Protections on issues affecting older people namely Pensions, including the 2012 changes, home makers & carers access to pensions, government plans to introduce a second tier pension. Cold weather protocols, activation for those who wish to work & the , ... Read more

Intent: To encourage the DEASP to adopt a number of Social Justice Ireland's policy proposals on the area of social protection

Details: Attended a meeting of the Community & Voluntary Pillar on Social Protection with senior civil servants from the DEASP

Intent: Commitment that the national poverty target will not be made less ambitious::Improvements in design of social welfare payments for lone parents::Improved access to Exceptional Needs Payments

Details: Income adequacy, poverty targets, supplementary welfare allowance, payments for lone parents

Intent: To secure public funding for the support of the Benefacts project

Details: Briefing and presentation on Benefacts solutions for public sector