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2023-08-30
Politician(s) lobbied: Aengus Ó Snodaigh (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Bríd Smith (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Chris Andrews (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Eamon Ryan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Brian Leddin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Joan Collins (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Marc Ó Cathasaigh (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Patrick Costello (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Richard Bruton (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Frances Black (Senator), Seanad; Marie Sherlock (Senator), Seanad; Rebecca Moynihan (Senator), Seanad
Intent: Encourage TDs and Senators to attend the launch of the report and make them aware of the contents of the report.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Coalition 2030 civil society report on Ireland and the SDGs |
2023-08-30
Politician(s) lobbied: Micheál Martin (Tánaiste and Minister), Department of Foreign Affairs
Intent: Increase in allocation to ODA for 2024.
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Support for Dochas call for increase in ODA in the budget |
2022-08-02
Politician(s) lobbied: Simon Coveney (Minister), Department of Foreign Affairs; Michael McGrath (Minister), Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; Eamon Ryan (Minister), Department of Environment, Climate and Communications; Paschal Donohoe (Minister), Department of Finance; Colm Brophy (Minister of State for the Diaspora and Overseas Development Aid), Department of Foreign Affairs
Intent: increase Ireland’s ODA budget in Budget 2023 by €233m to around €1.28 billion::help Ireland reach circa 0.37% ODA/GNI in 2023 and put Ireland on a coherent pathway to the pledged 0.7% by 2030
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Budget 2023 - increase in ODA |
2021-09-13
Politician(s) lobbied: Paschal Donohoe (Minister), Department of Finance
Intent: An increase in ODA in real terms to allow Ireland to keep pace with global needs now and in the post-COVID environment, and benchmarks by which to meet its ODA/GNI commitments, in support of the SDGs.::An increase funding to missionary bodies' in light of their enduring commitment to tackling poverty, inequality and injustice in the world.::Financing for climate change mitigation and adaptation to support Least-Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS). This is critical to addressing the climate emergency, recognising the intricate relationship between the impacts of climate change - poverty and conflict.
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Misean Cara calls on the Government to increase ODA and to establish a roadmap to meet its ODA/GNI commitments |
2021-05-17
Politician(s) lobbied: Simon Coveney (Minister), Department of Foreign Affairs
Intent: COVID-19 Vaccine Equity
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Request for a meeting to discuss the JOC Foreign Affairs and Defence report on the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines to developing countries |
| — | with a view to encouraging Ireland to sign up to the WHO C-TAP programme |
2021-05-17
Politician(s) lobbied: Maurice Quinlivan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Joe McHugh (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Review of Ireland’s position regarding the proposal at the WTO to issue a waiver from certain provisions of the TRIPS Agreement for the prevention, containment and treatment of Covid-19.
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Two requests that the JOC on EU Affairs |
| — | and the JOC on Enterprise |
| — | Trade and Employment undertake a review of Ireland’s position regarding the proposal at the WTO to issue waiver from certain provisions of the TRIPS Agreement for the prevention |
| — | containment and treatment of Covid-19. |
2021-01-18
Politician(s) lobbied: Charles Flanagan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Brendan Smith (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Scaled up missionary funding within the bilateral ODA envelope of Irish ODA to better match the scale of unmet demand among our members and their potential for transformational change on the ground in over 50 countries. The increased funding announced in Budget '21 affords an important opportunity to increase funding to CSOs in Ireland & the Global South, including missionary groups, for effective development work that is particularly focused on marginalised & excluded groups in line with RFBF.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Misean Cara post-Budget 2021 note to Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. Misean Cara is writing to bring to your attention the Joint Committee’s call in its Review of the Irish Aid Programme in February 2018 for Government to “examine opportunities to increase funding to missionary bodies.” |
2020-09-15
Politician(s) lobbied: Paschal Donohoe (Minister), Department of Finance; Colm Brophy (Minister of State for the Diaspora and Overseas Development Aid), Department of Foreign Affairs; Simon Coveney (Minister), Department of Foreign Affairs; Micheál Martin (An Taoiseach), Department of the Taoiseach
Intent: Increase in ODA budget. Support SDG implementation and 'building back better' after COVID-19
Methods: Letter, Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Misean Cara urges Government to ensure that Budget 2021: Underlines Ireland’s 0.7% ODA/GNI commitment |
| — | Supports the full |
| — | coordinated cancellation of all bilateral |
| — | multilateral and private sovereign debt repayments due in 2020 & 2021 from low- and middle-income countries. Acts on the recommendation of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on FAT&D |
| — | in its Review of Irish Aid Programme |
| — | that the Government 'examine opportunities to increase funding to missionary bodies. |
2020-05-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Alan Kelly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Eamon Ryan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Heather Humphreys (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Helen McEntee (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Leo Varadkar (Taoiseach), Department of the Taoiseach; Micheál Martin (Taoiseach), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Paschal Donohoe (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Richard Bruton (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Simon Coveney (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Catherine Murphy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mary Lou McDonald (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Peadar Tóibín (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Róisín Shorthall (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Matt Carthy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Bríd Smith (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; David Cullinane (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Gary Gannon (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mick Barry (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Joan Collins (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Neasa Hourigan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Joe O'Brien (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Catherine Martin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Brendan Howlin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Seán Crowe (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Cian O'Callaghan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Duncan Smith (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ged Nash (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Seán Haughey (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; James Lawless (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jack Chambers (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Brendan Smith (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Niall Collins (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Thomas Byrne (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Michael McGrath (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Anne Rabbitte (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Dara Calleary (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ossian Smyth (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Paul Murphy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Barry Saul (Councillor), Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council; Martin Heydon (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Hildegarde Naughton (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pippa Hackett (Senator), Seanad; Pauline O'Reilly (Senator), Seanad; Steven Matthews (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Malcolm Noonan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Francis Noel Duffy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Patrick Costello (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Councillor), Waterford City and County Council; Roderic O'Gorman (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jennifer Whitmore (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Holly Cairns (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pearse Doherty (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Louise O'Reilly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Michael Murphy (Councillor), Tipperary County Council; Brian Leddin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Seán Sherlock (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: sustaining Ireland and the European Union’s commitment to international development::In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic and the fact that none of us is safe until we are all safe, it will be important to strengthen multilateralism and international development cooperation, including to protect the ODA budget at Irish and European Union levels, in spite of the significant economic challenges that Ireland and the EU will face.::2. Ireland should continue to be a strong voice for protecting civil space and human rights during the COVID-19 emergency phase, when balance is needed between pandemic response restrictions and fundamental freedoms; and in the aftermath, when some nations may be tempted to retain repressive measures in society generally or towards certain groups::2. Ireland should continue to be a strong voice for protecting civil space and human rights during the COVID-19 emergency phase, when balance is needed between pandemic response restrictions and fundamental freedo
Methods: Letter, Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Protect ODA budget |
2020-01-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Simon Coveney (Tánaiste and Minister), Department of Foreign Affairs; Ciaran Cannon (Minister of State for the Diaspora and Overseas Development Aid), Department of Foreign Affairs; Seán Barrett (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Niall Collins (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Seán Crowe (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Noel Grealish (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Tony McLoughlin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Maureen O'Sullivan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Brendan Smith (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Gabrielle McFadden (Senator), Seanad; Ned O'Sullivan (Senator), Seanad; Ivana Bacik (Senator), Seanad; Billy Lawless (Senator), Seanad
Intent: Budget 2020 - increased funding to the NGO sector::Access to quality education for girls in developing countries::Topics/themes in relation to Ireland's development cooperation programme in 2020/21
Methods: Letter, Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Budget 2020 - increase funding to the NGO sector |