Lobbying Records (Page 1 of 1)
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
Kildare Youth Services
2025-05-19
Intent: improved funding for servicesFunding and support for dedicated youth facilities.
Details: We engaged with elected representatives regarding funding for youth and family services in Kildare and West Wicklow. We also discussed facilities and premises across the region.
Officials: Naoise O'Cearúil, Edward Timmins, Aidan Farrelly, Mark Wall, Réada Cronin, Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh, William Durkan, Pat Balfe
Methods: Sent an email invitation to a briefing / lobbying event - Email, We met and discussed the issues mentioned above. - Meeting
BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
2025-01-16
Intent: Elected councillors pledge to use factual and accurate information if elected as Councillor and bring a motion forward to their council to do the same. .
Details: Follow-up to local election pledge asking candidates who signed the pledge to : Local election pledge for candidates to pledge to: That is why we are asking you to pledge to use factual and accurate information during your election campaign, and during your term if elected as Councillor.
Officials: Andrea Dalton, Adrienne Wallace, Paul Murphy, Dan Boyle, Peter Horgan, Eoghan Kenny, Pádraig Rice, Honore Kamegni, ...
Methods: Email
Trinity Care
2024-09-17
Intent: Support for nursing homes and the Crisis in Care Campaign
Details: NHI Crisis in Care Campaign
Officials: Pat Balfe, Aoife Breslin, Mark Wall
Methods: Pat Balfe called into the nursing home in Suncroft Lodge, County Kildare to discuss the crisis in care campaign and speak with residents - Meeting, Aoife Breslin and Mark Wall were emailed to highlight the Crisis in Care Campaign and the challenges facing the nursing home sector. - Email
Kildare Youth Services
2024-09-02
Intent: We were seeking Catherines support in lobbying the relavant Minister regarding the issues discussed.
Details: Met with Catherine Murphy TD in Monasterevin on May 10 2024 with Pat Balfe, who at that time was seeking election as a local councillor. We discussed Youth work funding and the challeneges we face in Kildare access parity of funding levels with other parts of the country. We also discussed the cvhal, ...
Officials: Pat Balfe, Catherine Murphy
Methods: Meeting
Neil OBrien
2024-08-27
Intent: Provide members of KCC with an awareness of our current land holding in Celbridge and our interest in putting these lands forward for zoning. To have our lands re-zoned in the 2024-2030 LAP::Inclusion of land in 2024-2030 rezoning
Details: Enquiry regarding LAP 2024-2030 for Celbridge KCC
Officials: Aidan Farrelly, Angela Feeney, Anne Breen, Bill Clear, Brendan Wyse, Chris Pender, Carmel Kelly, Daragh Fitzpatrick, ...
Methods: All councillors were emailed individually with regard to the LAP for Kildare - Email