Lobbying Records (Page 1 of 45)
Sage Advocacy
2025-09-22
Intent: To develop awareness of the services provided by Sage Advocacy
Details: Information regarding the advocacy supports provided by Sage Advocacy for survivors of institutional abuse.
Officials: Garret Ahearn, Manus Boyle, Nikki Bradley, Cathal Byrne, Maria Byrne, Martin Conway, Mark Duffy, Garret Kelleher, ...
Methods: Email
Lir Communications Ltd
Current/Former DPOWhat is lobbying? (FAQ)2025-09-20
Intent: Raise awareness about Explorium's successful visitor numbers in one year since reopening, new programmes and initiatives planned in the coming months, and to highlight Explorium's potential as a national resource.
Details: Letter requesting a meeting to highlight Explorium’s positive role in science education for children and young people and its potential as a national resource.
Officials: John Brady, Paul McAuliffe, Catherine Ardagh, Cathy Bennett, Grace Boland, Joanna Byrne, Catherine Connolly, Albert Dolan, ...
Methods: Email, Meeting, Informal communication, ...
Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC)
2025-09-20
Intent: To seek support for FLAC's proposed amendments to the 2025 Bill
Details: Bereaved Partner’s Bill 2025
Officials: Aidan Davitt, Alice-Mary Higgins, Alison Comyn, Anne Rabbitte, Aubrey McCarthy, Cathal Byrne, Catherine Ardagh, Chris Andrews, ...
Methods: Meeting with Louise O'Reilly TD in Leinster House on 8 May 2025 to seek the deputy's support for FLAC's proposed amendments to the 2025 Bill - Meeting, Follow-up email to Louise O’Reilly TD on 13 May 2025 with proposed parliamentary question concerning the 2025 Bill. - Email, Follow-up emails to Louise O’Reilly TD seeking support and assistance with an AV Room Briefing concerning the 2025 bill on 22 May 2025, 12 June 2025, 13 June 2025, 25 June 2025 and 26 June 2025. - Email, ...
Transgender Equality Network Ireland
2025-09-19
Intent: We wanted to arrange an AV Room briefing to highlight gaps in access to the Gender Recognition Act
Details: TENI advocates for equal rights and access to healthcare for trans people.
Officials: Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Pádraig Rice, Mary Lou McDonald, David Cullinane, Máire Devine, Chris Andrews, Kourtney Kenny, William Joseph Carey, ...
Methods: 17th July - exchanged text messages with Padraig Rice TD to arrange an AV Room briefing in September - Informal communication
Transgender Equality Network Ireland
2025-09-19
Intent: We intended to inform DPOs of the current crisis in gender affirming care to better equip them in future planning on new models of care. ::We intended to inform Minister Carroll MacNeil on other issues regarding LGBTQI+ Healthcare, including mental health and elderly care.
Details: TENI advocates for equal rights and access to healthcare for trans people.
Officials: Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Pádraig Rice, Mary Lou McDonald, David Cullinane, Máire Devine, Chris Andrews, Kourtney Kenny, William Joseph Carey, ...
Methods: 1st May - Meeting with Mary Lou McDonald and David Cullinane, seeking clarity on SF comments regarding the UK Supreme Court decision on gender, updates on transgender healthcare both Ireland and Northern Ireland, and wider LGBTQ issues - Meeting, 16th May - Meeting with Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeil on LGBTQI+ health issues. These issues included gender affirming care, lgbtqia+ mental health, and elderly care. Follow up meetings were also planned in this meeting, though have not taken place as of the end of this lobbying log period - Meeting, 12th May - text messages exchanged with Padraig Rice on healthcare questions for Minister for Health - Informal communication, ...
DOCHAS - THE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF NON- GOVERNMENTAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATIONS
2025-09-19
Intent: Meetings to discuss the EU -MFF proposal over the coming months
Details: Follow-up emails to a discussion at a meeting of the Joint Committee of European Union Affairs, with meeting requests
Officials: Barry Ward, Paula Butterly, Seán Crowe, Paul Nicholas Gogarty, John Lahart, Michael Murphy, Robert O'Donoghue, Eamon Scanlon, ...
Methods: Follow-up emails to request further meetings to discuss the EU-Multiannual Financial Framework and civil society concerns on some of its elements - Email
LGBT Support and Advocacy Network Ireland CLG
2025-09-19
Intent: To provide information to the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs in relation to the LGBTQI+ rights situation in Hungary, and outline key recommendations for action needed to support the LGBTQI+ community in Hungary, in order to help inform any future engagement it may have on these issues
Details: Submission to the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs in relation to the LGBTQI+ rights situation in Hungary.
Officials: Barry Ward, Paula Butterly, Seán Crowe, Paul Nicholas Gogarty, John Lahart, Michael Murphy, Robert O'Donoghue, Eamon Scanlon, ...
Methods: At the invitation of the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs, provided a submission in relation to the LGBTQI+ rights situation in Hungary, in order to help inform any future engagement the Committee may have on the issue - Submission
Irish Wildbird Conservancy
2025-09-19
Intent: To raise awareness about the newly identified Important Bird Areas for seabirds in Ireland
Details: Important Bird Areas for Seabirds in Ireland
Officials: Timmy Dooley, Darragh O'Brien, Malcolm Noonan, Jennifer Whitmore, Roderic O'Gorman, Christopher O’Sullivan, Alice-Mary Higgins, Lorraine Clifford-Lee, ...
Methods: An invitation to attend the launch of the Important Bird Areas for seabirds in Ireland on World Seabird Day 2025 in Dublin and to raise awareness of the need to designate these areas as Special Protection Areas for birds. - Email, Inviting An Taoiseach Micheál Martin to launch the Important Bird Areas for Seabirds. Inviting Minister for Nature, Christopher O'Sullivan to launch the Important Bird Areas for Seabirds. - Letter
DOCHAS - THE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF NON- GOVERNMENTAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATIONS
2025-09-19
Intent: Discucc civil society concerns in regard to the forthcoming MFF negotations
Details: EU Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF)
Officials: Barry Ward, Paula Butterly, Seán Crowe, Paul Nicholas Gogarty, John Lahart, Michael Murphy, Robert O'Donoghue, Eamon Scanlon, ...
Methods: Presentation and discussion at a meeting of the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs - Meeting
Mental Health Reform
2025-09-18
Intent: Amendments to the Bill at Committee and Report Stage
Details: The Mental Health Bill
Officials: Liam Quaide, Sorca Clarke, Ian Power, Mary Butler, Mark Ward, Marie Sherlock, Eamonn Murphy, Frances Black, ...
Methods: Meeting about committee stage amendments on 25th Jun 2025 with Liam Quaide TD - Meeting, Email sent about committee stage amendments to Liam Qaide TD on 25th June 2025 - Email, Email about report stage amendments sent to Sorca Clarke TD on 27th June 2025 - Email, ...