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2025-12-17
1 official
Politician(s) lobbied: Kevin 'Boxer' Moran (Councillor), Westmeath County Council
Intent: To gain an understanding of what steps were being taken in relation to the relocation of the Garda Museum from its current location in Dublin Castle and to seek reassurance that it would continue to operate and be available to members of the public and serving and retired Gardaí
Methods: Letter
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Letter
A letter was sent to the Minister seeking an update on the location and operation of the Garda Museum into the future.
2025-12-17
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Politician(s) lobbied: Gerard Craughwell (Senator), Seanad
Intent: To have retired Garda members exempted from abatement of their pension if they take up employment in the civil service post retirement
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Phone call
Contact was made directly with the Senator to outline our concerns at the impact of pension abatement on our members and to highlight how some people who were in a new civil service pension were being served with notice of overpayment as a result of failure on the part of their new employer to properly apply the pension abatement rules from the start of their employment
Email
Forwarded details of individual cases to the Senator to emphasise the scale of overpayments members were being asked to return.
Meeting
The GSRMA met with Senator Craughwell in Leinster House to emphasise the points made in previous phone calls and to seek his support in having retired Gardaí exempted from the pension abatement legislation
2025-08-27
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Politician(s) lobbied: Niall Collins (Minister of State), Department of Justice; Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Minister), Department of Health
Intent: To ensure that in upcoming and future pay awards negotiated between Government and Civil and Public Service Trade Unions would be reflected in the pension of retired Garda members, i.e. to maintain pension parity with serving members.::To allow tax relief on the purchase of bicycles by retired Gardai similar to the opportunity offered to serving Gardai and Civil Servants. ::To secure the implementation of a funded prostate screening programme for men over 50 years of age.
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Meeting
Invited the Minister of State at the Department of Justice to the ADM of the GSRMA and presented our case by way of a speech delveired by the President of the Association
Letter
Letter to the Minister for Health seeking the implementation of a screening programmenfor men over 50 years of age.
2025-05-01
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2025-01-15
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Politician(s) lobbied: Simon Harris (An Taoiseach), Department of the Taoiseach; Micheál Martin (Tánaiste and Minister), Department of the Taoiseach
Intent: Parity with salary with serving colleagues is maintained in all future pay/pension negotiations. The right to have a say in determining our pensions. Post ’95 pensioners: 1. retrospection of increases to the supplementary portion of their pension before the 1 August 2024, 2. the terms of the widows/ers pension is addressed following the death of a spouse. The disparity in pension assessment between under 70's and over 70's is addressed. Having pensioners included in the cycle to work scheme
Methods: Letter
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Letter
It the lead up to the General Election we wrote to the seven main political parties.After the election we corresponded with the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste ahead of their talks on the formation of government.
2024-09-02
2 officials
Politician(s) lobbied: Simon Harris (An Taoiseach), Department of the Taoiseach; Jack Chambers (Minister), Department of Finance
Intent: Wrote to Taoiseach and Minister for Finance regarding Medical Card Assessment for over 70's, Cycle to Work Scheme, Post 1995 Pensions and Tax Relief on Association Subscriptions.
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Budget Submission for Budget 2025 on behalf of the GSRMA.
2024-04-29
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