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2025-01-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Sorca Clarke (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: To raise awareness about visiting orphanages, the harmful effect it can have on vulnerable children and the exploitative industries that can develop around this activity. To influence public and school policies on school trips or other volunteering activities in and to orphanages.
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | End Orphanage volunteering Working Group |
2024-09-03
Politician(s) lobbied: Peter Burke (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Robert Troy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Sorca Clarke (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Joe Flaherty (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: awareness of and increased investment in Development Education in order to fulfil international commitments in this area
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | highlighting IDEA pre-budget submission on Global Citizenship Education |
2024-04-29
Politician(s) lobbied: Norma Foley (Minister), Department of Education
Intent: to make Department of Education aware of risks of short term volunteering in orphanages and to develop guidelines for school trips to not visit or volunteer in orphanages.
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | End Orphanage volunteering |
2023-05-08
Politician(s) lobbied: Grace McManus (Councillor), Wicklow County Council; Johnny Mythen (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Peter Burke (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Alice-Mary Higgins (Senator), Seanad; Lynn Ruane (Senator), Seanad; Fintan Warfield (Senator), Seanad; Aisling Dolan (Senator), Seanad; Martin Browne (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Seán Fleming (Minister of State), Department of Foreign Affairs; Joe O'Brien (Minister of State), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth; Kathleen Funchion (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Brady (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ivana Bacik (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Brendan Howlin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Catherine Connolly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Violet Anne Wynne (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Chris Andrews (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ged Nash (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Marie Sherlock (Senator), Seanad; Róisín Shorthall (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Robert Troy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: To raise awareness about the damage that institutional care can do to children and the potential for harmful practice and exploitation. in particular to inform people considering overseas volunteering to research their destination carefully.
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Put Children First |
| — | End Orphanage Care campaign |
2021-09-09
Politician(s) lobbied: Seán Sherlock (Minister of State), Department of Foreign Affairs; Paschal Donohoe (Minister), Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
Intent: Consideration given to increasing Official Development Assistance overseas in The 2022 Budget
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Campaign to increase Official Development Assistance in Budget 22 and show clear pathway to achieve .5% by 2025 - #Now more than ever |
2021-05-04
Politician(s) lobbied: Frances Fitzgerald (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Colm Brophy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: attendance of policy makers at an event about the care of vulnerable children
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | De-institutionalization of children |
2021-01-12
Politician(s) lobbied: Helen McEntee (Minister), Department of Justice and Equality
Intent: Criminalization of the purchase and selling of sex (eg trafficking) particularly in relation to the exploitation of minors
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Submission to the Review of the Operation of Part 4 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017 |
2020-01-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Niall Collins (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Brendan Smith (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Requested the DFA include advice against volunteering in orphanages as part of Travel Advisories.::Recommend Irish Aid assist in transforming orphan care from institutions to family/community care models.::Request Irish Aid to support Development Education resources toward awareness-raising and understanding of the issues involved with the institutionalisation of children in orphanages.
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | 21 Nov 2019 |
| — | Comhlámh Orphanage Working Group met members of the Dáil's Committee on Foreign Affairs & Trade: Outlined issues around volunteering in orphanages and the harm caused to children in institutional care. Asked for further discussion on these issues with the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade; and for the Joint Committee to consider all recommendations contained in the report Children First: A Global Perspective on Volunteering in Orphanages and Transforming Care. |
2019-01-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Ruairí de Búrca (Assistant Secretary), Department of Foreign Affairs
Intent: That Ireland will put a greater emphasis on specific areas of Ireland's international development work e.g education in migration, sustainable development and economic inclusion, development education and an emergency appeals mechanism
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Consultation meeting |
2019-01-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Robert Troy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Peter Burke (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Improving access to public transport from the midlands to Dublin, to limit the use of cars.
Methods: Event / Reception
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Implementing the Paris Agreement on Climate Action |