Lobbying Records (Page 1 of 6)
Michael Nolan
2025-12-04
Intent: Rezoning of land at Barrettstown Road ,Newbridge
Details: Newbridge Town Plan
Officials: Chris Pender, Tracey O'Dwyer, Peggy O'Dwyer
Methods: Phone calls & some emails - Informal communication
Friends of the Earth
2025-09-19
Intent: Requesting a motion put forward by councillors requesting additional, multi-annual funding for retrofitting of local authority homes from the Department of Housing, Local Government, and Heritage
Details: Motion on Various Councils on Local Authority Energy Efficiency Programme
Officials: Adrienne Wallace, Andrea Dalton, Noel Connell, Joe Garrihy, Isobel Towse, Alan Coleman, Eoghan Fahy, Dakota Nic Mheanman, ...
Methods: Emailed city and county councillors requesting they put forward motion at their next council meeting requesting additional, multi-annual funding for the local authority retrofit programme. - Email
Irish Cancer Society
2025-09-19
Intent: To ask that Councillors bring a motion to a council meeting for budget towards the roll out of sunscreen dispensers in public places.::To campaign for the need for sunscreen in public places.
Details: Public sunscreen dispensers
Officials: Veralouise Behan, Aoife Breslin, Brian Dooley, Ivan Keatley, Mark Leigh, Bernard Caldwell, Rupert Heather, Nuala Killeen, ...
Methods: Emails to local County Councillors & TD's (as outlined below) including those from Kildare County Council, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown, Monaghan, Louth, Wicklow-Wexford, Dublin City Council, Fingal County Council, Kildare, Dublin West (named below) from 07.07.25 - Email, SMS/Text sent to members of Wexford Council Council, 22.08.25 - Catherine Biddy Walsh, Darragh McDonald, Ger Carthy, Jim Codd, Joe Sullivan, John O'Rourke, Mary Farrell, Oliver Walsh, Paddy Kavanagh - Informal communication, 1 meeting with Cllr David Trost, 25.07.25 - Meeting
Focus Ireland
2025-09-16
Intent: Quarterly public reports on youth homelessness data across 18 local authorities. They were also encouraged to raise the issue within their Housing Strategic Policy Committees,submit questions on current data practices, and advocate for improved data and a successor youth homelessness strategy within their political parties. The aim is to support cross-party efforts toward ending homelessness by 2030 and to drive tangible improvements in local data collection and consultation
Details: To improve policy, prevention, and data collection re: youth housing
Officials: Adrienne Wallace, Peter Horgan, Joe Lynch, Conor Reddy, Dermot Lacey, Oisín O'Connor, Brendan Ryan, Louis O'Hara, ...
Methods: 'Quarterly public reports on youth homelessness data across 18 local authorities. They were also encouraged to raise the issue within their Housing Strategic Policy Committees,submit questions on current data practices, and advocate for improved data and a successor youth homelessness strategy within their political parties. The aim is to support cross-party efforts toward ending homelessness by 2030 and to drive tangible improvements in local data collection and consultation.' - Email
COPE Galway CLG
2025-09-09
Intent: An increased understanding of the extent of youth homelessness across local authorities and to provide quarterly publicly available reports on the number of young people aged 18-24 that present for support due to homelessness including numbers assessed as homeless under section 2 of Housing Act 1988, numbers allocated emergency accommodation, numbers not allocated emergency accommodation and reasons why and the numbers not regards as homeless.
Details: Seeking a change in policy, prevention and data collection in regard to youth homelessness, for an increased understanding of the extent of youth homelessness across 18 local authorities.
Officials: Adrienne Wallace, Peter Horgan, Joe Lynch, Conor Reddy, Mícheál MacDonncha, Dermot Lacey, Oisín O'Connor, Brendan Ryan, ...
Methods: This activity was conducted in conjunction with the Irish Coalition to End Youth Homelessness (ICEYH) - Email
Neil OBrien
2025-08-29
Intent: Aim is to secure zoning for housing for land
Details: Enquiry regarding LAP 2024-2030 for Celbridge KCC
Officials: Paul Ward, Aidan Farrelly, Angela Feeney, Bill Clear, Brendan Wyse, Carmel Kelly, Chris Pender, Daragh Fitzpatrick, ...
Methods: Email
Horse Racing Ireland
2025-05-21
Intent: Advocating the economic benefits of HRI & to ensure continued government support for the Irish horseracing industry
Details: Stallion Trail Invitations
Officials: James Lawless, Bernard Durkan, Aidan Farrelly, Réada Cronin, Naoise O'Cearúil, Joe Neville, Martin Heydon, Seán Ó Fearghaíl, ...
Methods: Email
BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
2025-05-21
Intent: Kildare County Council passes a motion affirming its commitment to, and provides training for staff and elected members on, Section 42 of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014
Details: To discuss bringing a motion on mis- and disinformation to Kildare County Council.
Officials: Peter Melrose, Chris Pender
Methods: Email, Phone call
One Family
Current/Former DPOWhat is lobbying? (FAQ)2025-01-21
Intent: To inform political party leaders of our priority asks ahead of General Election 2024
Details: One Family Election Manifesto ahead of GE 2024
Officials: Ivana Bacik, Holly Cairns, Richard Boyd Barrett, Micheál Martin, Simon Harris, Roderic O'Gorman, Mary Lou McDonald, Chris Pender, ...
Methods: Manifesto is a shortened version of One Family's Pre Budget Submission for Budget 2025 - Email
Epilepsy Ireland
2025-01-21
Intent: For them to support our campaign to enhance Epilepsy Services & Infrastructure nationally to improve access to specialist services and treatments for the 45,000 people living with epilepsy in Ireland.::For them to support our campaign to expand the HSE’s Chronic Disease Management Programme to include epilepsy, encouraging collaboration between people with epilepsy and their GPs and reducing pressure on specialist services.::For them to support our campaign to develop a National Strategy to reduce the estimated 130 epilepsy-related deaths in Ireland and taking targeted action to save lives.::For them to support our campaign to make Ireland’s schools seizure-safe for the 10,000 children with epilepsy of school going age by ensuring all teachers are trained in seizure first aid and epilepsy.awareness as part of initial teacher training.::For them to support our campaign to ensuring Ireland’s 2022 commitment to implementing the WHO Intersectoral Global Action Plan on Epilepsy and other Ne
Details: Contacted listed DPOs in their capacity as General Election Candidates to support EI's advocacy campaigns if elected to the next Dáil
Officials: Cathy Bennett, Joe Cooney, Peter Cleere, David Fitzgerald, Michael Doyle, Seán Ó hArgáin, Adrienne Wallace, Carmel Brady, ...
Methods: Email