Lobbying Records (Page 1 of 4)
Lesley McGuire
2025-03-17
Intent: Hoped to draw DPOs' attention to submission submitted in compliance with Town plan update, to maintain the property within the town boundary and seek support for land to be re zoned as residential.
Details: The request to support rezoning of land approx 1.25km outside Blessington, Co.Wicklow for residential use.
Officials: Aoife Flynn, Avril Cronin, Breda McCarthy, Caroline Winstanley, Danny Alvey, Edward Timmins, Erika Doyle, Gail Dunne, ...
Methods: I phoned and left a message for 6 councillors who responded to my mail and spoke to 3. - Phone call
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 highlight the issues facing the taxi industry and to share recommendations to protect and strengthen Ireland’s taxi trade, and to call for support for these measures from candidates and for their inclusion in the Programme for Government.
Details: Email issued on behalf of key representatives from across driver unions and dispatch operators to General Election candidates and Government formation teams outlining key recommendations to protect and strengthen Ireland’s taxi trade.
Officials: Lettie McCarthy, Tania Doyle, Dean Mulligan, Bridín Murphy, Angela Feeney, Frankie Daly, Deirdre Heney, Aoibhinn Tormey, ...
Methods: Email
Liquid Gas Ireland
2025-01-21
Intent: To share LGI's Manifesto for the 2024 General Election and brief selected candidates on LGI's key policy priorities to support the decarbonisation of rural, off natural gas grid energy users, and to call for a ‘Just Transition’ to decarbonisation in Ireland.
Details: Outreach to share LGI's Manifesto for the 2024 General Election to election candidates highlighting LGI's policy priorities to support a 'Just Transition' in the decarbonisation of Ireland's off natural gas grid, and asking for these policies to be supported during the campaign.
Officials: Lettie McCarthy, Tania Doyle, Dean Mulligan, Bridín Murphy, Angela Feeney, Frankie Daly, Deirdre Heney, Aoibhinn Tormey, ...
Methods: Letter, Informal communication regarding LGI's General Election Manifesto at the National Ploughing Championships. - Informal communication
Ibec
2025-01-21
Intent: Support Ibec proposals to reduce electricity costs and a new state subvention to finance electricity infrastructure and renewable investment
Details: Measures to reduce electricity costs and boost competitiveness over the short, medium and long term
Officials: Stephen Kinsella, Alan Ahearne, Paul Bolger, Matthew Collins, Oonagh Buckley, Gary Tobin, Declan Hughes, Edward Timmins, ...
Methods: Phone call, Email
Codling Wind Park Limited
2025-01-21
Intent: To outline views on matters relating to asset transfer process.
Details: Letter of Phase 1 Offshore Wind Developers to Oonagh Buckley, Secretary General in the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications in September 2024 re asset transfer process
Officials: Stephen Donnelly, Steven Matthews, Orla Finn, Louise Fenelon Gaskin, Danny Alvey, Graham Richmond, Peir Leonard
Methods: Project briefings were arranged with the relevant stakeholders in the Wicklow, Greystones and Poolbeg/Ringsend areas. - Meeting
Instinctif Partners Public Affairs Ireland
2025-01-20
Intent: Highlight to General Election candidates the role of generic, biosimilar, and value-added medicines in healthcare policy and urge candidates to support the objectives of Medicines for Ireland during and after the election.
Details: Correspondence to General Election Candidates regarding the key asks contained within the Medicines for Ireland manifesto.
Officials: Lettie McCarthy, Tania Doyle, Dean Mulligan, Bridín Murphy, Angela Feeney, Frankie Daly, Deirdre Heney, Aoibhinn Tormey, ...
Methods: Email
Irish Second-Level Students' Union (ISSU)
2024-09-20
Intent: I contacted 16 councillors from Wicklow and Kildare to ask them to get involved with my Regional Project. I asked them each to send me a short video detailing their experience with local elections and how those democratic processes were important, as they are how we choose who represents our community.
Details: ' The aim is to compile a video with these clips to accompany the launch of my Democracy In Action project. As the resource is for students to use during student council elections, I wanted to give an example of how powerful one person's vote can be in their community, which in our case is school., ...
Officials: Aidan Farrelly, Naoise O'Cearúil, Pat Kennedy, Peir Leonard, Avril Cronin, Jason Mulhall, Erika Doyle, Caroline Winstanley, ...
Methods: Email
ActionAid Ireland
2024-09-20
Intent: For DPOs to intervene in cases of evictions of parents and their children in Wicklow, Cork and Mayo.
Details: Wrote to specific TDs and councillors in order to halt the particular eviction and transfer of particular cases of lone parent and children in Cork, Wicklow and Mayo
Officials: Steven Matthews, Simon Harris, Jennifer Whitmore, John Brady, Stephen Donnelly, Sylvester Bourke, Peir Leonard, Dan Boyle, ...
Methods: Email
County Wicklow Public Participation Network
2024-08-30
Intent: Additional Participation in the Wicklow County Council Strategic Policy Committees for the community sector through the community & voluntary, social inclusion and environmental sectors
Details: Wicklow County Council Draft SPC Scheme 2024-2029 Public Consultation
Officials: Aoife Flynn, Avril Cronin, Caroline Winstanley, Danny Alvey, Dermot O'Brien, Edward Timmins, Emer O'Gorman, Erika Doyle, ...
Methods: Submission