Lobbying Records (Page 1 of 6)
World Vision Ireland
2019-06-06
Intent: Participation in Conference on the Sustainable Development Goals::Greater dialogue and awareness on the Sustainable Development Goals
Details: Sustainable Development Goals
Officials: Ivana Bacik, Paddy Burke, Mark Daly, Denis Landy, Michael Mullins, Catherine Noone, Ned O'Sullivan, Katherine Zappone, ...
Methods: Email, Phone call
National Association General Practitioners
2019-01-07
Intent: engagement with Minister
Details: to raise concerns with regard to new sickness certification forms
Officials: Regina Doherty, Teresa Leonard, Kathleen Stack
Methods: Letter
Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed
2018-09-21
Intent: To engage with the DEASP to secure better outcomes on issues affecting unemployed people and others reliant on social protection payments and support services.
Details: The INOU was part of a delegation from the Community and Voluntary Pillar that met with officials from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection to discuss a range of issues including: income adequacy; activation and employment; improving service provision; social inclusion and pov, ...
Officials: Anne Vaughan, Kathleen Stack
Methods: Meeting
National Youth Council of Ireland
2018-09-21
Intent: To secure information, seek clarification and seek to influence policy re youth issues
Details: Community and Voluntary Pillar Bilateral Meeting with Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Officials: Anne Vaughan, Kathleen Stack
Methods: Community and Voluntary Pillar Bilateral Meeting with Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Goldsmith House, June 5th 2018 - Meeting
Age Action
2018-09-21
Intent: Raise awareness on Age Action Budget 2019 priorities and overall work programme
Details: Bilateral meeting on 5th June 2018 between the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection and the Community and Voluntary Pillar
Officials: Anne Vaughan, Kathleen Stack
Methods: Bilateral meeting on 5 June 2018 between the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection and the Community and Voluntary Pillar, Goldsmith House, Dublin 2. Relevant agenda items for Age Action include 2012 pension changes, update on pension reform, labour market activation for older people and telephone allowance administration - Meeting
Irish Rural Link Co-Operative Society Limited
2018-09-21
Intent: Highlight issues around social welfare for people living in rural areas
Details: Community and Voluntary Pillar Bi-Lateral Meeting with Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Officials: Anne Vaughan, Kathleen Stack
Methods: Meeting
Irish Senior Citizens Parliament
2018-09-20
Intent: To influence policy to improve state pensions, a reversal of the 2012 changes & increased access for older people to pensions.::To ensure that the Telephone Allowance measures in Budget 2018 were being implemented.::Agreement on a cold weather protocol whereby additional payments are made once temperatures drop below the protocol level.::That Older People wishing to retrain and/or return to work are given the same opportunities as all other categories.
Details: Meeting with Department of Employment & Social Protections on issues affecting older people namely Pensions, including the 2012 changes, home makers & carers access to pensions, government plans to introduce a second tier pension. Cold weather protocols, activation for those who wish to work & the , ...
Officials: Anne Vaughan, Kathleen Stack
Methods: Meeting
Social Justice Ireland
2018-09-19
Intent: To encourage the DEASP to adopt a number of Social Justice Ireland's policy proposals on the area of social protection
Details: Attended a meeting of the Community & Voluntary Pillar on Social Protection with senior civil servants from the DEASP
Officials: Kathleen Stack, Anne Vaughan
Methods: Meeting
Society of St. Vincent de Paul
2018-09-13
Intent: Commitment that the national poverty target will not be made less ambitious::Improvements in design of social welfare payments for lone parents::Improved access to Exceptional Needs Payments
Details: Income adequacy, poverty targets, supplementary welfare allowance, payments for lone parents
Officials: Anne Vaughan, Kathleen Stack
Methods: Bilateral meeting on 5th June 2018 between the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection and the Community and Voluntary Pillar, Goldsmith House, Dublin 2. Relevant agenda items for SVP were National Action Plan for Social Inclusion, Young people, Children and Families, and Inclusive Activation. - Meeting
Benefacts
2018-05-21
Intent: To secure public funding for the support of the Benefacts project
Details: Briefing and presentation on Benefacts solutions for public sector
Officials: Anne Vaughan, Kathleen Stack, John Conlan, Paul Reid
Methods: Meeting