Lobbying Records (Page 1 of 2)
Irish Penal Reform Trust
2025-01-21
Intent: To promote greater investment through Budget 2025 in areas of penal policy and reform. To raise awareness of alternatives to imprisonment and to highlight where investment and resourcing is needed in these areas.
Details: IPRT Pre-Budget Submission 2025 asks
Officials: Jack Chambers, Helen McEntee, Paschal Donohoe, Darragh O'Brien, Patrick Costello, Mark Ward, Catherine Murphy, Pearse Doherty, ...
Methods: Personalised emails sent to listed DPOs with IPRT's key asks including increasing mental health and addiction investment 2) piloting a supported bail service for women, 3) redirecting spending to community alternatives, particularly restorative justice 4) adequate resourcing for oversight bodies to prepare for OPCAT ratification 5) investment in programmes and capital investment to enhance family visiting facilities and in-cell telephony and video booths. - Email, Executive Director attended hustings on child poverty organised by the Children's Rights Alliance on 17 September 2024 in Buswells Hotel. She asked political representatives to support IPRT's Pre-Budget asks and followed up with individual emails. - Event / Reception
Irish Penal Reform Trust
2024-09-20
Intent: To gain greater insight into the Probation Service's plans to implement its new Strategy and the establishment of a new pilot Bail Supervision Scheme for Women
Details: Implementation of new Probation Strategy
Officials: Mark Wilson
Methods: Executive Director met with Mark Wilson on 19 August to discuss implementation of new Probation Strategy, the forthcoming Restorative Justice strategy and to advocate for a pilot Bail Supervision Scheme for women. - Meeting
St Stephen's Green Trust
2024-09-16
Intent: Inform Probation Service that Traveller Justice Initiative moving to IPRT.
Details: Information regarding Traveller Justice Initiative
Officials: Mark Wilson
Methods: To inform Probation Service that Traveller Justice Initiative moving to IPRT. - Email
Irish Penal Reform Trust
2024-05-21
Intent: To promote discussion of key penal reform priorities both North and South and to encourage cross-border engagement.
Details: Conference event - ‘The Criminal Justice System North and South – Current Challenges and Opportunities for Change'
Officials: Ben Ryan, Mark Wilson
Methods: Conference event held in Newry, on 14 March, co-hosted by IPRT and NIACRO, examining challenges in the Criminal Justice System for the State and identifying opportunities for improvement, followed by group discussions on the opportunities for change. Key stakeholders in criminal justice systems, North and South, in attendance. - Event / Reception
Irish Penal Reform Trust
2024-05-21
Intent: To promote greater family access in prisons.
Details: Roundtable event with key stakeholders to discuss family focussed criminal justice in the prison system.
Officials: Mark Wilson, Ben Ryan, Emma Regan
Methods: On 17 April, IPRT held a roundtable event with key stakeholders in the criminal justice system and related services, to promote consideration of implementing a similar approach to the UK Invisible Walls model around family-friendly prison visits. - Event / Reception
SAFE Ireland National Social Change Agency CLG T/A SAFE Ireland
2024-05-15
Intent: Respond to the Probation Service as part of a consultation on their Statement of Strategy 2024-2026.
Details: Safe Ireland Probation Service Statement of Strategy 2024-2026 Submission March 2024
Officials: Mark Wilson
Methods: Invitation from Mark Wilson Director of the Probation Service by email dated 8th March stating that the organisation was carrying out a consultation on its Statement of Strategy 2024-2026 and asked for submissions. - Email, Email dated 28th March issued by Caroline Counihan BL to the Probation Service which contained pdf attachment of Safe Ireland's submission in relation to their Statement of Strategy 2024-2026. - Email
Irish Association of Social Workers
2024-05-09
Intent: Given the critical role played by social workers among vulnerable groups, and the ongoingcrisis of recruitment and retention of social workers, and despite the challenge in developinga level of co-ordination, taking no action to ameliorate the ongoing crisis is not an option. Takingaction to increase the cohort of new graduates by improving the co-ordination of studentplacements
Details: Commissioned by the Irish Association of Social Workers, with the All-Employers Social Work Forum and the Social Work Education and Practice Teaching (SWEPT) group, to explore, assess and evaluate possibilities and make recommendations to improve social work practice placement availability and co-or, ...
Officials: Roderic O'Gorman, Roderic O'Gorman, Niall Collins, Patrick O'Donovan, Stephen Donnelly, Helen McEntee, Helen McEntee, Mark Wilson
Methods: Email
Irish Penal Reform Trust
2024-01-19
Intent: Discuss with Director of Probation Service the role of probation and key penal policy developments, including IPRT's key priorities for the coming months.
Details: Meeting with Director of the Probation Service, Mark Wilson, to discuss penal reform priorities
Officials: Mark Wilson
Methods: On returning from maternity leave in Sept 2023, IPRT's Executive Director, Saoirse Brady, met the Director of the Probation Service on 19 Sept 2023, to discuss IPRT's key penal reform priorities and the role of Probation more generally within the penal system. - Meeting
Irish Penal Reform Trust
2023-09-20
Intent: Event launching IPRT Report on 26 May 2023 - Progress in the Penal System 2022 (or 'PIPS 2022') - the sixth in a series of annual reports benchmarking progress in Ireland's penal system.
Details: Event launching IPRT Report - Progress in the Penal System 2022
Officials: Caron McCaffrey, Mark Wilson, John O'Callaghan
Methods: Contributors at the launch event included: His Honour Judge Paul Kelly, President of the District Court; Caron McCaffrey, Director General of the Irish Prison Service; Mark Wilson, Director of the Probation Service; Paul Grace, Team Leader at the Solas Project, John O’Callaghan, Deputy Secretary (Criminal Justice), Department of Justice; Mark Kelly, Chief Inspector, Office of the Inspector of Prisons. - Event / Reception
Irish Penal Reform Trust
2023-05-21
Intent: To inform key stakeholders and key politicians of IPRT report on 'Maternal Imprisonment in Ireland: A Scoping Study', the particular challenges facing women in prison and the recommended IPRT actions in this area.
Details: Engagement with key stakeholders on issue of women in prison and specifically maternal imprisonment.
Officials: Ben Ryan, Oonagh McPhillips, Mark Wilson, Caron McCaffrey, Fergal Black
Methods: On 13 March 2023, IPRT's Acting Executive Director attended an IPS event at the Dochas Female Prison (in Dublin) on the topic of maternal imprisonment and spoke with both Director General of Irish Prison Service and Secretary General of Department of Justice on IPRT concerns in this area as well as upcoming planned work on women in prison (through IPRT's annual 'Progress in the Penal System' report). - Event / Reception, IPRT's Acting Executive Director, Molly Joyce, emailed range of key stakeholders to inform them of IPRT launch of report on 'Maternal Imprisonment in Ireland: A Scoping Study' on 2 March 2023 and make them aware of key IPRT recommendations in this area. - Email