Intent: Minister for Housing, TD James Browne and Mayor of SDCC, Cllr Pamela Kearns to attend the official sod turning of Garter's Lane in Saggart, Co. Dublin on 18 February 2026.
Details: Sod Turning at Garter's Lane in Saggart, Co. Dublin on 18 February 2026
Minister for Housing, James Browne TD and Mayor of SDCC, Cllr Pamela Kearns to attend the official sod turning of Garter's Lane in Saggart, Co. Dublin on 18 February 2026. Invitations were issued to the Local TDs and South Dublin County Council members included in this submission, however, Tuath did not maintain a formal attendance record for attendees. - Event / Reception
Email to TD Ciaran Ahern, asking him to support motion on moratorium - EmailEmails to councillors asking them to support Cllr Jess Spear's motion calling for a national moratorium on data centre development - Email
Intent: The passing of a motion in South Dublin County Council that called on the Minister for Climate, Environment and Energy to introduce a national moratorium on data centres.
Details: Advocacy on Data Centre Moratorium Motion in South Dublin County Council
Email to Cllr Roisín Mannion inviting her to South Dublin County Partnership workshop on data centres. - EmailEmails to all councillors in South Dublin County Council encouraging them to support the motion tabled by Cllr Jess Spear: “That this council resolves to write to the Minister for Climate and the Environment requesting a national moratorium on further data centre expansion.” - EmailPhone Calls with Cllr Jess Spear on data centre moratorium motion. - Phone call
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
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
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.
12th May - text messages exchanged with Padraig Rice on healthcare questions for Minister for Health - Informal communication16th 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 - Meeting1st 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
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
Intent: To ask election candidates to sign the Irish Cancer Society General Election pledge.::To congratulate TD's on their election to the 34th Dáil and provide introduction.::To inform general election candidates of ICS election priorities.
1 meeting with Cllr Evie Sammon; 1 meeting with Cllr Bill Clear; 1 meeting with Deputy Verona Murphy. - Meeting2 phone calls with Verona Murphy, 09.11.24 and 11.11.24. - Phone callEmail to election candidates, 12.11.24; emails to Barry Heneghan, 19.11.24 and 04.12.24; email to Tom Brabazon, 19.11.24; email to Cian O'Callaghan, 19.11.24; email to Naoise Ó'Muirí, 19.11.24; email to Jack Chambers, Roderic O'Gorman, Emer Currie, Paul Donnelly, Ruth Coppinger, 26/27.11.24; email to Brendan Smith, Pauline Tully, Niamh Smyth, Matt Carthy, 13.11.24; email to Eoin Hayes, Jim O'Callaghan, Chris Andrews, Emma Blain, Ivana Bacik, James Geoghegan, 01.11.24 - 30.11.24; - Email
Intent: To highlight the issues facing the taxi industry and to share recommendations to protect and strengthen Ireland’s taxi trade, and to call for support for these measures from candidates and for their inclusion in the Programme for Government.
Details: Email issued on behalf of key representatives from across driver unions and dispatch operators to General Election candidates and Government formation teams outlining key recommendations to protect and strengthen Ireland’s taxi trade.
Intent: To share LGI's Manifesto for the 2024 General Election and brief selected candidates on LGI's key policy priorities to support the decarbonisation of rural, off natural gas grid energy users, and to call for a ‘Just Transition’ to decarbonisation in Ireland.
Details: Outreach to share LGI's Manifesto for the 2024 General Election to election candidates highlighting LGI's policy priorities to support a 'Just Transition' in the decarbonisation of Ireland's off natural gas grid, and asking for these policies to be supported during the campaign.
Informal communication regarding LGI's General Election Manifesto at the National Ploughing Championships. - Informal communicationOutreach to selected candidates to request that LGI's policy priorities for rural consumers are included in Political party manifestos, in light of General Election 2024. - EmailLetter
