Lobbying Records (Page 1 of 3)
Family Carers Ireland
2019-01-18
Intent: Raise awareness of policy related issues affecting family carers
Details: Improve Supports for Family Carers
Officials: Simonetta Ryan
Methods: Event / Reception
Simon Communities in Ireland
2018-09-21
Intent: Preventing homelessness::Resourcing Housing First::Ensuring funding for sufficient, short term emergency accommodation::Ensuring funding for social and affordable housing supply
Details: Lobbying on Budget 2019
Officials: Eoghan Murphy, Damien English, Mary Hurley, John Paul Phelan, David Walsh, Paschal Donohoe, Robert Watt, Derek Moran, ...
Methods: Email
Family Carers Ireland
2018-09-14
Intent: To ensure effective cnsultation
Details: Making Work Pay initiative
Officials: Simonetta Ryan
Methods: Event / Reception
Social Justice Ireland
2018-01-20
Intent: To encourage Government to make integrated policy decisions which are sustainable from an economic, environmental and social perspective.
Details: National Social Monitor: A snapshot on how Ireland is performing in a range of areas including Healthcare, Education, Housing, Public Participation and Communities, Income Distribution, Taxation, Work and Job Creation, Rural Development, Environment, Sustainability and Global Challenges. The full te, ...
Officials: Aidan O'Driscoll, Derek Moran, Fergal Lynch, John McCarthy, Niall Burgess, Niamh O’Donoghue, Robert Watt, Orlaigh Quinn, ...
Methods: National Social Monitor: A snapshot on how Ireland is performing in a range of areas including Healthcare, Education, Housing, Public Participation and Communities, Income Distribution, Taxation, Work and Job Creation, Rural Development, Environment, Sustainability and Global Challenges. The full text is available at https://www.socialjustice.ie/content/publications/national-social-monitor-2017 - Email
Social Justice Ireland
2018-01-20
Intent: To encourage Government to make fair choices in taxation changes in Budget 2018. Details at https://www.socialjustice.ie/content/policy-issues/government-income-tax-proposals-are-unjust-and-unfair
Details: Taxation Briefing: Assessing the fairness of some taxation options in Budget 2018
Officials: Aidan O'Driscoll, Derek Moran, Fergal Lynch, John McCarthy, Niall Burgess, Niamh O’Donoghue, Robert Watt, Orlaigh Quinn, ...
Methods: Taxation Briefing on impact on different taxation options in Budget 2018. Available at https://www.socialjustice.ie/content/policy-issues/government-income-tax-proposals-are-unjust-and-unfair - Email
Social Justice Ireland
2018-01-20
Intent: Policy changes to address issues of low pay, precarious employment, the 'working poor' and low employment rates for people with disabilities. Suggested solutions include refundable tax credits, aligning the National Minimum Wage with the Living Wage, eliminating disincentives for people with disabilities to take up employment and introducing legislation to ban zero hours contracts and strengthen rights for workers on insecure contracts
Details: Employment and Unemployment: Briefings on Ireland's current employment situation including a focus on low pay, precarious employment and disability issues. Available at https://www.socialjustice.ie/content/publications/quarterly-employment-monitor-december-2017 and https://www.socialjustice.ie/con, ...
Officials: Aidan O'Driscoll, Derek Moran, Fergal Lynch, John McCarthy, Niall Burgess, Niamh O’Donoghue, Robert Watt, Orlaigh Quinn, ...
Methods: Briefings on Employment Matters https://www.socialjustice.ie/content/publications/quarterly-employment-monitor-december-2017 and https://www.socialjustice.ie/content/publications/social-justice-ireland-employment-monitor-issue-5 - Email
Social Justice Ireland
2018-01-20
Intent: To inform policy makers of the implications of Budget 2018 for a more just and fairer Ireland, and to highlight alternative policy choices which were available
Details: Budget 2018 Analysis: Social Justice Ireland's annual analysis of the Budget - links to the document and related videos can be found on https://www.socialjustice.ie/content/budget/2018
Officials: Aidan O'Driscoll, Derek Moran, Fergal Lynch, John McCarthy, Niall Burgess, Niamh O’Donoghue, Robert Watt, Orlaigh Quinn, ...
Methods: Analysis of Budget 2018 https://www.socialjustice.ie/content/publications/budget-2018-analysis-and-critique - Email
Social Justice Ireland
2018-01-20
Intent: To stimulate debate on how to reconnect people and the State, and to encourage policy changes to promote a more deliberative democracy in Ireland
Details: Information re Social Policy Conference 'Society Matters: Reconnecting People and the State' which addressed questions such as Can the 'new politics' deliver a different relationship between people and the State? What kind of Ireland do we want to shape through civic participation? How do we reconn, ...
Officials: Aidan O'Driscoll, Derek Moran, Fergal Lynch, John McCarthy, Niall Burgess, Niamh O’Donoghue, Robert Watt, Orlaigh Quinn, ...
Methods: Information about Social Justice Ireland's 30th Annual Policy Conference 'Society Matters: Reconnecting People and the State' including link to the papers presented and videos of the day. https://www.socialjustice.ie/content/publications/see-videos-and-papers-our-30th-annual-social-policy-conference - Email
Treoir (Federation of Services for Unmarried Parents and their Children)
2017-10-18
Intent: To fix anomalies in relation to the administration of the ENP scheme. To reduce the 2 year requirement for young parents on the BTEA. Improvements in the HAP scheme and greater protection for young renters. Change in the policy for young mothers U16 to receive child benefit directly. Incentivise young parents to return to training by either restoring the training allowance or improving incentives to halt the decline in numbers attending. Improve access to the ACS for young student parents.::Increase in the rate of Job seekers allowance to young fathers to support their contributions to their child.
Details: The administration of Exceptional Needs Payments (ENP), The conditions attached to the Back to Education Allowance (BTEA), Housing: Rent Supplement & Centralised Rent Clinics, Child Benefit and ineligibility mothers under 16 years of age, Restoration of Training Allowances, The Affordable Chil, ...
Officials: Leo Varadkar, Simonetta Ryan
Methods: Meeting took place in the Department of social protection on the 19th January. In attendance were Dept of Social Protection: Minister Varadkar, Simonetta Ryan, Assistant Secretary; Noel Hand, Principal Officer and Philip O'Callagher, Policy & Parliamentary Advisor to Minister Varadkar.TPSP: Margaret Morris, National Co-ordinator, Esther Pugh, Project Leader, Tracy Skerret, Project Leader - Meeting
Social Justice Ireland
2017-09-21
Intent: Balanced job growth across all the regions to address the increasing disparity between Dublin and the rest of the country. A focus is required on long term unemployed people over 45, who find it particularly difficult to gain employment.
Details: Publication of our Employment Monitor highlighting that headline employment numbers are obscuring the imbalanced nature of employment growth, with Dublin far outstripping the other regions.
Officials: Aidan O'Driscoll, Derek Moran, Fergal Lynch, John McCarthy, Niall Burgess, Niamh O’Donoghue, Robert Watt, Orlaigh Quinn, ...
Methods: Email re latest Social Justice Ireland Employment Monitor, available at https://www.socialjustice.ie/content/publications/social-justice-ireland-employment-monitor-issue-4 - Email