Lobbying Records (Page 1 of 68)
Macra na Feirme
2025-01-21
Intent: Set out priority initiatives for Rural Youth to political parties and members of the Oireachtas::Key asks include: farmer mental heath initiatives, housing proposals and farm succession initiative's.
Details: Macra's General Election Manifesto
Officials: Aengus Ó Snodaigh, Aindrias Moynihan, Aisling Dempsey, Alan Dillon, Alan Farrell, Alan Kelly, Albert Dolan, Ann Graves, ...
Methods: Email Manifesto to Oireachtas members - Email, Posts on social media with Manifesto priorities Press release to Oireachtas members - Social Media
Irish Council for Civil Liberties
2025-01-21
Intent: Seek to discuss ICCL Election Manifesto asks on a wide variety of issues related to the administration of justice, equality & discrimination, democratic freedoms, and digital rights.
Details: ICCL Election Manifesto Asks
Officials: Paul Murphy, Pa Daly, Patrick Costello
Methods: Email correspondence with Paul Murphy TD, Patrick Costello, TD and Pa Daly TD in October and November 2024. - Email, Meeting with Paul Murphy TD on 14 October 2024. - Virtual Meeting
Irish Council for Civil Liberties
2025-01-21
Intent: To inform relevant TDs of ICCL's position with respect to the Mental Health Bill (2024)
Details: Mental Health Bill (2024)
Officials: Alan Farrell, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, Bernard Durkan, Cathal Crowe, Catherine Connolly, Catherine Murphy, Colm Brophy, David Cullinane, ...
Methods: Email to selected TDs sent on 17 September 2024. - Email
Irish Council for Civil Liberties
2025-01-21
Intent: Request for support on amendments to the Bill. ::To inform about ICCL's positioning on the Bill.
Details: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024
Officials: James Lawless, Jim O'Callaghan, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Alan Farrell, Colm Brophy, Johnny Guirke, Mark Ward, Niamh Smyth, ...
Methods: Email correspondence with Thomas Pringle TD on 26 September 2024.Email to each member of the Committee on Justice sent 14 October 2024. - Email, Meeting with Jim O'Callaghan TD on 10 October 2024. - Meeting, Briefing held in AV room of Leinster House on 19 September 2024. - Lobby day
Irish Council for Civil Liberties
2025-01-21
Intent: Gather information on plans for scheduling of 3rd Stage of the Bill. ::Request that a Parliamentary Question be asked. ::Recommend Coalition Against Hate Crime (CAHC) amendments to the Bill ::Express CAHC's interest in engaging in the future to fully transpose Council Framework Decision 2008/913/JHA on combatting Racism and Xenophobia. ::Express CAHC's support for the passage of the legislation. ::Express CAHC disapppointment towards Sinn Fein manifesto intention to repeal the legislation.
Details: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill
Officials: Barry Ward, Eileen Flynn, Annie Hoey, Malcolm Byrne, Pauline O'Reilly, Ivana Bacik, Simon Harris, Marie Sherlock, ...
Methods: Email correspondence with various TDs and Senators throughout September - October 2024. - Email, Messages with Senator Annie Hoey on 11 October 2024. - Social Media, Letter sent to Taoiseach Simon Harris TD, Minister Helen McEntee TD, and Minister Roderic O'Gorman.Letter sent to Pa Daly TD and Cllr Miriam Murphy (Sinn Fein Manifesto Preparation) on 23rd December 2024. - Letter, ...
SSE plc
2025-01-21
Intent: Policy environment to support cleaner, homegrown, Irish energy. Targeted policy proposals to deliver home/business decarbonisation; increased deployment of renewable energy; energy infrastructure development; low carbon, flexible power solutions; and planning reforms to deliver on the State's climate targets.
Details: Delivery of clean, homegrown, Irish energy
Officials: Simon Harris, Peter Burke, Martin Kenny, Neale Richmond, Jack Chambers, Helen McEntee, Alan Dillon, Tim Lombard, ...
Methods: Attendance at the National Ploughing Championships. - Event / Reception, Constituency outreach prior and post general election. - Email
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 Cancer Society
Current/Former DPOWhat is lobbying? (FAQ)2025-01-21
Intent: To ask election candidates to sign the Irish Cancer Society General Election pledge.::To congratulate TD's on their election to the 34th Dáil and provide introduction.::To inform general election candidates of ICS election priorities.
Details: General Election campaign
Officials: Nessa Cosgrove, Edel Mcsharry, Michael Doyle, Evie Sammon, Bill Clear, Lisa McDonald, Frank Staples, Aoife Rose O'Brien, ...
Methods: 1 meeting with Cllr Evie Sammon; 1 meeting with Cllr Bill Clear; 1 meeting with Deputy Verona Murphy. - Meeting, Email to election candidates, 12.11.24; emails to Barry Heneghan, 19.11.24 and 04.12.24; email to Tom Brabazon, 19.11.24; email to Cian O'Callaghan, 19.11.24; email to Naoise Ó'Muirí, 19.11.24; email to Jack Chambers, Roderic O'Gorman, Emer Currie, Paul Donnelly, Ruth Coppinger, 26/27.11.24; email to Brendan Smith, Pauline Tully, Niamh Smyth, Matt Carthy, 13.11.24; email to Eoin Hayes, Jim O'Callaghan, Chris Andrews, Emma Blain, Ivana Bacik, James Geoghegan, 01.11.24 - 30.11.24; - Email, 2 phone calls with Verona Murphy, 09.11.24 and 11.11.24. - Phone call, ...
mytaxi network Ireland (trading as FREE NOW)
2025-01-21
Intent: To discuss the potential impact of unknown VAT liabilities on taxi drivers and taxi supply, and to request specific guidance for taxi drivers on their VAT requirements.
Details: Outreach to share concerns in the taxi industry regarding VAT liabilities for taxi drivers, the potential impact on drivers' livelihoods, and the need for specific guidance on this issue.
Officials: Jack Chambers, Sam Griffin, John Brady, Richard Boyd Barrett, Brian Leddin, Duncan Smith, Catherine Murphy, Pa Daly, ...
Methods: Email
Law Society of Ireland
Current/Former DPOWhat is lobbying? (FAQ)2025-01-21
Intent: To advocate for Law Society positions on Family Law reform (regarding the unsuitability of the District Court as a venue for divorce and judicial separation cases)
Details: The Family Courts Bill
Officials: Pa Daly, Jim O'Callaghan, Ivana Bacik, Catherine Murphy, Patrick Costello, Josepha Madigan, Seán Sherlock
Methods: Email, Letter, Phone call