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Irish Council for Civil Liberties

September–December

[Justice and Equality] Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill 2025

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Matt Carthy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Ivana Bacik', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Paul Murphy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Roderic O'Gorman", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Richard Boyd Barrett', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Barry Ward', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

September–December

[Justice and Equality] EU Rule of Law Report

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Gary Gannon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Palestinian Human Rights

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Joe O'Brien (Former DPO)", 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Social Protection)'} {'name': "Joe O'Brien (Former DPO)", 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Rural and Community Development)'} {'name': "Joe O'Brien (Former DPO)", 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth)'} {'name': 'Patricia Stephenson', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Simon Harris', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

September–December

[Justice and Equality] ICCL Legal Observers Report

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Gary Gannon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Robbie Gallagher', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Garret Kelleher', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Michael McDowell', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Anne Rabbitte', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Lynn Ruane', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} + 10 more

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

September–December

[Community] Democracy and Civil Society

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'Email invite event sent to all Oireachtas Members on 12 November 2025.'} {'name': 'Pádraig Rice', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Rory Hearne', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Bairbre Nic Aongusa', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Rural and Community Development)'}

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

September–December

[Justice and Equality] Know Your Rights: A Guide for Trans and Non-Binary People

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Sinéad Gibney', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Inquiry into Sallins Case

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Helen McEntee', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice)'} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

January–April

[Justice and Equality] LGBTI+ Rights

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Pádraig Rice', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

January–April

[Health] Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Jennifer Carroll MacNeill', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Robert Watt', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Bernard Gloster', 'role': 'Chief Executive Officer (Health Service Executive)'} {'name': 'Dr Colm Henry', 'role': 'Chief Clinical Officer (Health Service Executive)'}

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

January–April

[Local Government] Charity Regulation and Political Activity

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Art O’Leary', 'role': 'Chief Executive Officer (Electoral Commission)'}

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

January–April

[EU Affairs] Ireland's opt-out of law enforcement related provisions of the AI Act

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Sinéad Gibney', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Helen McEntee', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice)'} {'name': 'Sinéad Gibney', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Jim O'Callaghan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Alan Kelly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Gary Gannon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Matt Carthy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 11 more

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Drug Policy Reform

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Lynn Ruane', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Deportation Flights - Dublin to Tbilisi

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Roderic O'Gorman", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

January–April

[Justice and Equality] ICCL Policy Priorities

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Jim O'Callaghan", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice)'} {'name': 'Gary Gannon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Historic Human Rights Violations

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Emer Currie', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Ivana Bacik', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Matt Carthy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Eileen Flynn', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Brendan Smith', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Pauline Tully', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} + 40 more

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Defamation (Amendment) Bill

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Matt Carthy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Gary Gannon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Alan Kelly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Roderic O'Gorman", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Paul Murphy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Catherine Connolly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 4 more

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

January–April

[EU Affairs] CJEU Case C-829/24

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Ivana Bacik', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Artificial Intelligence

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Sinéad Gibney', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Gary Gannon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Jennifer Whitmore', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Aidan Farrelly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Robert O'Donoghue", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'George Lawlor', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 22 more

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

January–April

[Local Government] Electoral (Civil Society Freedom) (Amendment) Bill 2019

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Lynn Ruane', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

January–April

[EU Affairs] Encryption and the proposed EU Child Sexual Abuse Regulation

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Billy Kelleher', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

January–April

[Health] Intersex Surgical Interventions

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Pádraig Rice', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

January–April

[Children and Youth Affairs] Tusla and Data Protection

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Kate Duggan', 'role': 'Chief Executive Officer (Child and Family Agency (Tusla))'} {'name': 'Gary Gannon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Body-Worn Cameras

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Alan Kelly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Policing of Protests

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Jim O'Callaghan", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice)'}

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

January–April

[Justice and Equality] HSE Health App

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Bernard Gloster', 'role': 'Chief Executive Officer (Health Service Executive)'} {'name': 'Damien Mccallion', 'role': 'Chief Technology and Transformation Officer (Health Service Executive)'}

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Reform of Coroner System

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Frank Feighan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Marian Harkin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Martin Kenny', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

January–April

[EU Affairs] Transparency of the Permanent Representative of Ireland to the European Union

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Sinéad Gibney', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

May–August

[Justice and Equality] LGBTI+ Rights

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Mary Lou McDonald', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'David Cullinane', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Pádraig Rice', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Laura Harmon', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Helen McEntee', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Norma Foley', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 6 more

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

May–August

[Justice and Equality] Hate Crime and Hate Speech

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': "Jim O'Callaghan", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice)'} {'name': 'Gary Gannon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

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