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Lobbying Records (Page 1 of 9)
2025-05-14
Politician(s) lobbied: Kevin McCarthy (Secretary General), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth; Lara Hynes (Acting Assistant Secretary), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Intent: Enhance funding for organisations who are funded by Tusla but currently subsidising services through their own voluntary funds
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Funding for voluntary sector organisations working with children and families in the area of family support |
2025-01-14
Politician(s) lobbied: Andrew Munro (Assistant Secretary), Department of Justice; James O'Connor (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Stephen Donnelly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Better inform members of the oireachtas and civil servants about the issues facing the families we support and the need for increased funding to support services helping those families.
Methods: Event / Reception, Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Budget 2025 and Part Manifestos |
2024-09-10
Politician(s) lobbied: Simon Harris (An Taoiseach), Department of the Taoiseach
Intent: Inform politicians about the need to improve financial supports for families struggling most to provide their children with basic necessities and reduce costs of going back to school
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Cost of living issues and back to school costs |
2024-05-08
Politician(s) lobbied: Chris Andrews (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Raise awareness of the level of food insecurity and parental mental health, and the need for additional supports to be put into place so that children are not at risk of going without food or living in homes in which parents cannot focus on their needs.
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Food poverty and parental mental health |
2024-01-09
Politician(s) lobbied: Roderic O'Gorman (Minister), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth; Helen McEntee (Minister), Department of Justice; James Browne (Minister of State), Department of Justice
Intent: Amending policies and introduction of new policies that would provide more help and supports to families with children who are facing adversities and challenges
Methods: Event / Reception
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Improving supports for families facing disadvantage |
2023-09-05
Politician(s) lobbied: Kevin McCarthy (Secretary General), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth; Elizabeth Canavan (Assistant Secretary), Department of the Taoiseach; Lara Hynes (Acting Assistant Secretary), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Intent: Improve supports for families facing adversity
Methods: Email, Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Children living in disadvantage |
2023-06-19
Politician(s) lobbied: Elizabeth Canavan (Assistant Secretary), Department of the Taoiseach; Leo Varadkar (Taoiseach), Department of the Taoiseach
Intent: Increase awareness of the problems low income parents are facing trying to provide themselves and their children with sufficient nutritious food. Additionally, wanted to allow parents the opportunity to discuss main issues they are facing and how the new child poverty and wellbeing unit could help alleviate those issues
Methods: Meeting, Event / Reception
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Highlighting the issue of food poverty and families and the development of the new child poverty and wellbeing unit |
2023-01-11
Politician(s) lobbied: Roderic O'Gorman (Minister), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth; Claire Kerrane (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Róisín Shorthall (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Paul McAuliffe (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Caroline Conroy (Councillor), Dublin City Council
Intent: Discussing family support services and affect of cost of living increases on low income families
Methods: Event / Reception, Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Family support awareness |
2022-09-02
Politician(s) lobbied: Unknown
Intent: Improving measures to increase supports for families on low incomes
Methods: Unknown
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Budget 2023 |
2022-05-04
Politician(s) lobbied: Joe O'Brien (Minister of State), Department of Rural and Community Development; Roderic O'Gorman (Minister), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Intent: Increase awareness of food insecurity among families in Ireland
Methods: Virtual Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Food poverty among families |
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