HAIL - Housing Association for Integrated Living

Politician(s) lobbied: Graham Doyle (Secretary General), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Intent: Ensuring equitable access to existing funding streams and ensuring that there are sustainable funding models in place for specialist Approved Housing Bodies.

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Mary Butler (Minister of State), Department of Health

Intent: To discuss HAIL's work as a provider of housing and support to people with significant and enduring mental health funding and to advocate for HAIL to have equitable access to all funding streams available for Approved Housing Bodies.

Methods: MeetingEmail

Politician(s) lobbied: Ian Power (Adviser to Minister of State), Department of Health

Intent: A meeting with Minister Butler to discuss the work of HAIL, who provide both housing and support services to people with significant and enduring mental health difficulties.

Methods: Informal communication

Politician(s) lobbied: John McDonald (Special Adviser), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Intent: Equitable access for HAIL to funding streams available for Approved Housing Bodies.

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Michael Carrighy (Senator), Seanad; Seamus McGrath (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Richard Boyd Barrett (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Paula Butterly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Joe Cooney (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Thomas Gould (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Rory Hearne (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Paul McAuliffe (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Eoin Ó Broin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas

Intent: Convey the need for continued and equal access to viable capital funding models in line with our current funding changes.

Methods: Meeting

Politician(s) lobbied: Elizabeth Canavan (Assistant Secretary), Department of the Taoiseach

Intent: Convey the urgent need to have a viable funding model in place to acquire/develop new homes.

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Mary Butler (Minister of State), Department of Health

Intent: A meeting with Minister Butler to discuss housing pathways for people with enduring mental health difficulties, including those transitioning from the Central Mental Health Hospital and prisons, and funding barriers to our continued delivery.

Methods: Letter

Politician(s) lobbied: Ian Power (Special Adviser), Department of the Taoiseach; Mary Butler (Government Chief Whip and Minister), Department of the Taoiseach

Intent: A meeting with Minister Butler to to discuss housing pathways for people with enduring mental health difficulties and funding barriers to our continued delivery.

Methods: Informal communication

Politician(s) lobbied: John McDonald (Special Adviser), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Intent: Highlight the unviable nature of the current funding models.

Methods: EmailInformal communication

Politician(s) lobbied: Seamus McGrath (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Rory Hearne (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas

Intent: Attendance of Oireachtas members at HAIL's Annual Report launch and / or engagement on the key issues highlighted in the report.

Methods: Email