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2025-09-19
Politician(s) lobbied: Unknown
Intent: That there would be a safety review into the project.
Methods: Unknown
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Uplift members in Limerick |
| — | Kerry and Clare emailed their councillors asking them to demand an independent safety review into the Shannon LNG project. Uplift members in Kerry also emailed their TDs asking that an independent safety review into the Shannon LNG project take place.. |
2025-09-19
Politician(s) lobbied: Sinéad Gibney (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Alan Kelly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: That we would be granted meetings to brief Sinead Gibney and Alan Kelly on Uplift's Inquiry and to talk to them about how our findings from the inquiry could be amplified.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Emailed Sinead Gibney and Alan Kelly asking for a meeting to tell them about Uplift's People's Inquiry on Big Tech Harms and to share a PDF of our People's Inquiry report. |
2025-09-19
Politician(s) lobbied: Patrick O'Donovan (Minister), Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Intent: That a meeting would be secured with Minister Patrick O'Donovan to discuss the findings in the report from Uplift's People's Inquiry into Big Tech Harms.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Responded to correspondence from Patrick O'Donovan |
| — | Minister for Arts & Media in which he declined to meet with Uplift members on the People's Inquiry and urged us to talk to Coimisiún na Meán. I said the issue was pressing for government and extended beyond Coimisiún na Meán's scope into issues such as AI and GDPR and asked him to reconsider and meet with us. |
2025-09-19
Politician(s) lobbied: Unknown
Intent: That the bill to ban fox hunting is allowed to be introduced.
Methods: Unknown
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Uplift members emailed their TDs to ask them to allow a ban on fox hunting to be introduced. |
2025-09-19
Politician(s) lobbied: James Browne (Minister), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Intent: That Minister James Browne doesn't go ahead with the proposal for habitual residency as a requirement for social housing.
Methods: Phone call, Social Media
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Uplift members were asked to phone Minister James Browne office to tell him to drop the proposal for habitual residency as a requirement for social housing. The request was also made on Uplift's social media platforms. |
2025-09-19
Politician(s) lobbied: Patrick O'Donovan (Minister of State), Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Intent: That Patrick O'Donovan take big tech harms seriously, agree to meet with us, and agree to implement recommendations from our People's Inquiry report.
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Uplift members and staff members went to Patrick O'Donovan's constituency office in Newcastle West to deliver a copy of the report that came out of Uplift's People's Inquiry on Big Tech Harms. He wasn't there so we put it through his letter box and put posters up on his office window calling on him to implement the recommendations in our report. We also handed out leaflets in the town and put up content on socials. We also delivered a letter to his office. |
2025-09-19
Politician(s) lobbied: Micheál Martin (Taoiseach), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Simon Harris (Tánaiste and Minister), Department of Foreign Affairs; Paschal Donohoe (Minister), Department of Finance; Jack Chambers (Minister of State), Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform; Helen McEntee (Minister), Department of Education; Darragh O'Brien (Minister), Department of Transport; Norma Foley (Minister), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth; Peter Burke (Minister), Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment; Dara Calleary (Minister), Department of Rural and Community Development; Patrick O'Donovan (Minister of State), Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media; Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Minister), Department of Health; James Browne (Minister), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Jim O'Callaghan (Minister), Department of Justice; Martin Heydon (Minister of State), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; James Lawless (Minister), Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science; John Lahart (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Cathy Bennett (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Brian Brennan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Shay Brennan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Noel McCarthy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ken O'Flynn (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Garret Ahearn (Senator), Seanad; Alice-Mary Higgins (Senator), Seanad; Fiona O'Loughlin (Senator), Seanad; Patricia Stephenson (Senator), Seanad; Joe O'Reilly (Senator), Seanad; Seán Ó Fearghaíl (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: That the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade would not waive crucial pre-legislative scrutiny on changes to the Arbitration act, making it harder for the Government to ratify the CETA trade deal. That cabinet approval would be withheld for amending the Arbitration Act.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Uplift members emailed members of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade and asked them to perform full pre-legislative scrutiny of the changes to the Arbitration Act that would allow the Government to ratify the CETA trade deal. Uplift members also emailed members of the cabinet asking them asking them not to give cabinet approval to amend the Arbitration Act. |
2025-09-19
Politician(s) lobbied: Brian Stanley (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Eamon Scanlon (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ryan O'Meara (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Tom Brabazon (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Duncan Smith (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Maeve O'Connell (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Catherine Callaghan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Rose Conway-Walsh (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: That the Dáil Defence Committee and all Fianna Faíl TDs would support Irish neutrality legislation.
Methods: Phone call, Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Uplift members were asked to send emails and make phone calls to members of the Dáil Defence Committee |
| — | asking them to support Irish neutrality. Letters were also sent to all Fianna Faíl TDs asking them to support neutrality. |
2025-09-19
Politician(s) lobbied: Simon Harris (Tánaiste and Minister), Department of Foreign Affairs
Intent: That social media companies would no longer be allowed to use the recommender system algorithms on their platforms.
Methods: Social Media
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | On Uplift's social media channels |
| — | a video was posted asking that Simon Harris to ensure that the Government take steps to disallow the harmful recommender system algorithms used by social media companies. |
2025-09-19
Politician(s) lobbied: Seán Ó Fearghaíl (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Noel McCarthy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Garret Ahearn (Senator), Seanad; Shay Brennan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Brian Brennan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ken O'Flynn (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Lahart (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Fiona O'Loughlin (Senator), Seanad; Joe O'Reilly (Senator), Seanad; Alice-Mary Higgins (Senator), Seanad; Duncan Smith (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Patricia Stephenson (Senator), Seanad; Cathy Bennett (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: That all trade in goods and services be banned with the illegally occupied territories.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Uplift members were asked to email the Foreign Affairs and Trade Committee about passing the Occupied Territories Bill and asking that all trade in goods and services be banned with the illegally occupied territories. |
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