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Lobbying Records (Page 1 of 6)
2025-09-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Simon Harris (Tánaiste and Minister), Department of Foreign Affairs; Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Minister), Department of Health
Intent: To advocate for Government support on the matter
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | To raise concerns and recommendations in response to Revision 3 of the Political Declaration for the 2025 United Nations High-Level Meeting on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases and the Promotion of Mental Health |
| — | on which silence has been broken. |
2025-09-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Paul McAuliffe (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Sinéad Gibney (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Aubrey McCarthy (Senator), Seanad; Patricia Stephenson (Senator), Seanad; Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Minister), Department of Health; Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Shay Brennan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ruth Coppinger (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Manus Boyle (Senator), Seanad; Pearse Doherty (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Padráig Mac Lochlainn (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Alcohol included as a clear and named priority in the new National Drugs Strategy including clear actions and a commitment by Government to ensure that resources are ringfenced to allow for delivery of the named actions.
Methods: Letter, Email, Meeting, Phone call
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Campaign to ensure that alcohol is meaningfully included as a priority in the new National Drugs Strategy in development in the Department of Health |
2025-05-05
Politician(s) lobbied: Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Minister), Department of Health
Intent: Alcohol Forum Ireland led the development of a coalition of over 70 organisations and individuals to advocate for meaningful inclusion of alcohol in the new national Drug Strategy which is due for publication in 2025. The intended result is the inclusion of clear goals, actions and a commitment to resources to prevent and reduce alcohol harm within the new national drug strategy.
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | National Drug Strategy |
2025-05-05
Politician(s) lobbied: Micheál Martin (An Taoiseach), Department of the Taoiseach; Simon Harris (Tánaiste and Minister), Department of Foreign Affairs; Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Minister), Department of Health; Professor Breda Smyth (Chief Medical Officer), Department of Health
Intent: Introduction of health labelling on alcohol in 2026 as committed to by Government through the Public Health Alcohol Act
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Signatory to a number of letters calling on Government to commit to the introduction of alcohol health labelling as provided for in legislation |
| — | through the provisions of the Public Health Alcohol Act |
2025-05-05
Politician(s) lobbied: Matt Carthy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Increase in funding to support AFI to deliver a sustainable, safe and effective under 18s alcohol and other drug service for young people in Counties Cavan and Monaghan. ::Advocate for the need for improved service provision for both young people and adults with alcohol and other drug use issues in the Cavan and Monaghan region.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Advocacy regarding the deficit in core funding for Alcohol Forum Ireland to operate an under 18s alcohol and drug service in Cavan and Monaghan |
2025-01-23
Politician(s) lobbied: Heather Humphreys (Minister), Department of Rural and Community Development; Stephen Donnelly (Minister), Department of Health
Intent: Interpretation of advertising restrictions in the Public Health Alcohol Act expanded to include zero alcohol products and alcohol brand advertising
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Advocacy with the Minister for Health to extend the restrictions on alcohol advertising to include zero alcohol products |
2024-09-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Colm Burke (Minister of State), Department of Health
Intent: To advocate for changes to the Sale of Alcohol Bill to better provide for regulation of drink delivery services, teenage discos and to raise concerns about the proposed liberalisation of licensing hours and expansion of the number of licenses.
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Sale of Alcohol Bill |
2024-09-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Padráig Mac Lochlainn (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Improved provision of rehabilitation services for persons with alcohol related brain injury in Ireland.
Methods: Meeting, Phone call
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Advocacy with an elected representative regarding lack of any residential rehabilitation for people with a presumptive diagnosis of alcohol related brain injury on release from hospital |
2024-09-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Matt Carthy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Heather Humphreys (Minister), Department of Rural and Community Development; Brendan Smith (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Niamh Smyth (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pauline Tully (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Joe O'Reilly (Senator), Seanad; Robbie Gallagher (Senator), Seanad; Diarmuid Wilson (Senator), Seanad; Thomas Pringle (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Charlie McConalogue (Minister), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; Eileen Flynn (Senator), Seanad; Pearse Doherty (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Padráig Mac Lochlainn (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Joe McHugh (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Niall Blaney (Senator), Seanad
Intent: Changes made to the Sale of Alcohol Bill to provide for better regulation for Under 18s events on licensed premises in Ireland
Methods: Event / Reception, Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | To seek political support for changes to better provide for regulation of under 18s events on licensed premises in Ireland through amendments to the Sale of Alcohol Bill |
2024-09-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Heather Humphreys (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Colm Burke (Minister of State), Department of Health
Intent: Raise awareness with the Minister in the Cavan Monaghan region and ask that she would make representations on behalf of MaCYSS and Alcohol Forum Ireland with the Minister for Health with regard to securing funding to cover the critical deficit in funding from Jan 2025.
Methods: Letter, Phone call, Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Submission of a business case to Minister Heather Humphreys seeking funding crucial to the continued operation of an under 18s addiction service in Cavan and Monaghan from the beginning of 2025. |
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