Cormac McKay

Politician(s) lobbied: James Browne (Minister), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Intent: To seriously tackle the issue of getting vacant property back into habitability by Involving those currently on the housing waiting list, to contribute to the refurbishment of those properties and all newly constructed housing stock, for them to contribute, as you continue to take powers away from Councils and inject policy at a national levelit was my hope you would give this serious consideration, ::Deferrfering back to individual councils for this could be seen as discrimallary to have different policies from one Council to another. ::Questioned if the Minister actually read the proposal and what it is trying to achieve?::We are currently experiencing an extreme skilled workforce shortage to tackle our housing and infrastructure deficit in the State.https://share.google/SzCX3FKmPYBLvL0p1One of the proposals of the bill is to free up skilled works by replacing those workers with the expected residents and community to work on the less skilled work similar to how Habitat for Humanity

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Michael McGrath (Commissioner), European Parliament; Sinead Ryan (Assistant Secretary), Department of Finance; John Moran (Mayor of Limerick), Limerick City and County Council

Intent: Request the Department of Local Government to invite our EU Commissioner, Michael McGrath, Commissioner for Democracy in the EU, to discuss the local democracy deficit in Ireland in public meetings around the country as part of our EU Presidency. ::The Dept of Local Government is to make funding available for public meetings

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Jim O'Callaghan (Minister), Department of Justice

Intent: Clarification on who is responsible, which Minister? Neither Justice or Transport seems to be taking responsibility

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Darragh O'Brien (Minister), Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment

Intent: Request for Cormac McKay representing Aeravai to join the forum to offer solutions with developments in available transport technology.

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: John Moran (Mayor of Limerick), Limerick City and County Council; John Cummins (Minister of State), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Conor Sheehan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Eoin Ó Broin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Rory Hearne (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Micheál Carrigy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Richard Boyd Barrett (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Paula Butterly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Thomas Gould (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Seamus McGrath (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; PJ Murphy (Senator), Seanad; Pat Casey (Senator), Seanad; Joe Flaherty (Senator), Seanad; Maria McCormack (Senator), Seanad; James Browne (Minister), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Intent: To seriously tackle the issue of getting vacant property back into habitability ::Involve those currently on the housing waiting list to contribute to the refurbishment of those properties and all newly constructed housing stock for them to contribute, A Government/Council run Habitat for Humanity type scheme, to build social cohesion and community building inclusivity.::Tackle the social stigma of those in State-provided or heavily subsidised accommodation, an often unfair opinion and a generalisation that they are not contributing to society or their accommodation provision and community. ::Tackle the issue of rent arrears facing many Councils, ::https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTMsJtQj5AnaZLvPhp-cImO3Pw_ZPFVDmFZLq6PChS-PpdFBXjwyijAfv6v7YMZdJzBlyRnGS_tUheC/pub::We are currently experiencing an extreme skilled workforce shortage to tackle our housing and infrastructure deficit, with other commercial construction taking priority. www.constructionawards.ie/news/skills-short

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Helen McEntee (Minister), Department of Defence

Intent: I have made a recommendation to the Defence Forces and your predecessors in the past that Ireland keeps, maintained in reserve a sufficient fleet of vehicles, that could not be electronically affected, in the unlikely event of an EMP attack or natural phenomena Solar Flares.::There is due to be a number of Buses retired, from Dublin Bus and Bus Eireann, that would be suitable for this purpose, to provide emergency transportation for the general population, that I highly recommend the Defence forces should keep in reserve and Defence Forces mechanics are trained to maintain them and drive them.::That fuel to be kept in our emergency strategic fuel reserve for these vehicles and other uses, I highly recommend this is biofuel, sourced from Irish Farmers, as part of our emergency strategic fuel reserve and that they are paid a fair market price for this biofuel, to boost the uptake of biofuel manufacturing on the island by our farmers, so we are not dependent on foreign volatile fossil fue

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Lynn Boylan (MEP), European Parliament; Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (MEP), European Parliament; Michael McGrath (Commissioner), European Parliament; Micheál Martin (Taoiseach), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas

Intent: Plebisite to be held at the same time as the Presidential election.

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Joe McGrath (Chief Executive Officer), Tipperary County Council; Fearghal Reidy (Chief Executive Officer), Kerry County Council

Intent: Express and receive interest in having a large-scale deployment of Autonomous Shared Mobility in your county.

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Darragh O'Brien (Minister), Department of Transport; Paul Hannon (Deputy Secretary), Department of Transport; David Byrne (Assistant Secretaries or Equivalent Grades), Department of Transport

Intent: Meeting with Head of Global Partnership and International Business Development, ::Department of Transport has not been proactive or ambitious, to allow or even plan for AV deployments on Irish roads and have been laggards and we are now playing catch-up in an ever increasing competitive landscape. Because of this unfortunately Irish people have been totally mislead by the media on the maturity and consumer readiness of AVs. We have missed the AV testing and trialing phase and now it's a case of integration into our national transport ecosystem with large-scale deployments.

Methods: Phone callEmail

Politician(s) lobbied: Micheál Martin (Taoiseach), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Darragh O'Brien (Minister), Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment; Paschal Donohoe (Minister), Department of Finance; Jack Chambers (Minister), Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform

Intent: Support for the Autonomous Shared Mobility Sector in Ireland ::https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qJ9VuHTtNB0NRAb_CnSBhofy5dmZkzzxwULbT3_d5es/edit?usp=drive_link

Methods: Email