Overwatch Report

Focus Ireland

January–April

[Children and Youth Affairs] Families presenting to Garda stations

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Katherine Zappone', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'}

Focus Ireland

January–April

[Housing] Ending homelessness

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Eoghan Murphy', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)'} {'name': 'Mary Hurley', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)'}

Focus Ireland

January–April

[EU Affairs] European Commission Draft Proposal for a European Labour Authority

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Lynn Boylan', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Focus Ireland

January–April

[Children and Youth Affairs] Children in care

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Katherine Zappone', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'}

Focus Ireland

January–April

[Housing] Inter-agency cooperation

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'John Murphy', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation)'}

Focus Ireland

January–April

[Housing] Dublin City Council proposed changes to the Scheme of lettings

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Eoin Ó Broin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Kieran Binchy', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Tom Brabazon', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Dermot Lacey', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Noeleen Reilly', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Andrew Montague', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} + 9 more

Focus Ireland

January–April

[Housing] Dublin City Council proposed changes to the Scheme of lettings

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Submission All Councillors', 'role': 'Submission to all DCC councillors'}

Focus Ireland

January–April

[Housing] Dublin City Council proposed changes to the Scheme of lettings

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Brendan Kenny', 'role': 'Director of Services or Equivalent (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Eoin Ó Broin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Focus Ireland

January–April

[Housing] Dublin City Council proposed changes to the Scheme of lettings

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Brendan Kenny', 'role': 'Director of Services or Equivalent (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Eoin Ó Broin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Chris Andrews', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Janice Boylan', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Cathleen Boud', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Anthony Connaghan', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} + 15 more

Focus Ireland

May–August

[Housing] Local Authority Allocations Scheme

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'David Costello', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Andrew Keegan', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Tina McVeigh', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Alison Gilliland', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Ray McAdam', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Norma Sammon', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} + 3 more

Focus Ireland

May–August

[Housing] Provision of Public Housing and Homeless Policy

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Eoghan Murphy', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government)'} {'name': 'Eoin Ó Broin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} {'name': "Darragh O'Brien", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Catherine Murphy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Focus Ireland

May–August

[Housing] Housing First Funding

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Bob Jordan', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)'}

Focus Ireland

May–August

[Housing] Homeless Figures

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Eoghan Murphy', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government)'} {'name': 'Mary Hurley', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)'} {'name': 'Jennifer Carroll MacNeill', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)'} {'name': 'Damien English', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)'}

Focus Ireland

May–August

[Housing] Issues of Homelessness

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Damien English', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)'}

Focus Ireland

May–August

[Housing] Homelessness Policy

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Focus Ireland

May–August

[Budgetary matters] Pre-Budget Submission

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Eoghan Murphy', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government)'} {'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Regina Doherty', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Social Protection)'} {'name': 'Richard Bruton', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Education and Skills)'} {'name': 'Eoin Ó Broin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Darragh O'Brien", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Focus Ireland

May–August

[Housing] Housing Policy for Family Homelessness and Housing First

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Eoin Ó Broin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Focus Ireland

May–August

[Children and Youth Affairs] Aftercare Waiting List

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Katherine Zappone', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'}

Focus Ireland

September–December

[Budgetary matters] Pre-Budget 2019

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Darragh O'Brien", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Eoghan Murphy', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government)'} {'name': 'Katherine Zappone', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'} {'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'} {'name': 'Regina Doherty', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection)'} + 5 more

Focus Ireland

September–December

[Housing] Housing Rights

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Jennifer Carroll MacNeill', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)'} {'name': 'Tommy Broughan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Focus Ireland

September–December

[Housing] Family Homelessness

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Lisa Chambers', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Alan Farrell', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Tom Neville', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Lorraine Clifford-Lee', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Catherine Noone', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Fintan Warfield', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} + 3 more

Focus Ireland

September–December

[Children and Youth Affairs] Child Homelessness

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Jan O'Sullivan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Katherine Zappone', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'}

Focus Ireland

September–December

[Education and Training] Education Impacts of Homelessness

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Joe McHugh', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Education and Skills)'}

Focus Ireland

September–December

[Housing] Recategorisation in monthly figures

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Maria Bailey', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Pat Casey', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Ruth Coppinger', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Barry Cowen', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Mattie McGrath', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Fergus O'Dowd", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 5 more

Focus Ireland

September–December

[Housing] Homelessness in the EU

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': "Minister for Foreign Affairs cc'd in email campaign targeting Hungarian ambassador to Ireland. Unclear where to record this as was not a mass communication targeting large number of people."} {'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'Marian Harkin', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Focus Ireland

September–December

[Housing] Housing and Homelessness Policy

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Eoghan Murphy', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government)'} {'name': 'Damien English', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)'} {'name': 'Mary Hurley', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)'} {'name': 'John McCarthy', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government)'} {'name': 'Bob Jordan', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)'}

Focus Ireland

September–December

[Housing] Housing Provision

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Ivan Grimes', 'role': 'Director of Services or Equivalent (Waterford City and County Council)'}

Focus Ireland

January–April

[Social Protection] Lone Parents and Homelessness

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Maria Bailey', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Kevin Humphreys', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'John Curran', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Gino Kenny', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Catherine Ardagh', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Joan Collins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 5 more

Focus Ireland

January–April

[Housing] Women and Homelessness

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Frances Fitzgerald', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice and Equality)'}

Focus Ireland

January–April

[Finance] Tax treatment of landlords

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michael Noonan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'}

Lobbying Tracker

Most Lobbied TDs