Overwatch Report

Inclusion Ireland

May–August

[Health] A meeting to discuss the commissioning of Changing Places in the Local Authority and Budget 2018

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'John Leahy', 'role': 'Councillor (Offaly County Council)'}

Inclusion Ireland

May–August

[Education and Training] A meeting to discuss education and Budget 2018

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Carol Nolan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Inclusion Ireland

May–August

[Justice and Equality] The screening of a film that looks at relationships between persons with an intellectual disability and a discussion on the subject

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Carol Nolan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Inclusion Ireland

May–August

[Health] A meeting to discuss the commissioning of Changing Places in the Local Authority and Budget 2018

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'John Leahy', 'role': 'Councillor (Offaly County Council)'}

Inclusion Ireland

May–August

[Education and Training] Email to the Chair of the Education Committee to request a sitting

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Inclusion Ireland

May–August

[Justice and Equality] Submission on Adult Safeguarding Bill 2017

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michael Harty', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Inclusion Ireland

May–August

[Health] Meeting re Disability issues

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'John Dolan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Inclusion Ireland

September–December

[Justice and Equality] Inclusion Ireland hosted a stand at the National Ploughing Championships to highlight the organisation's key campaigns and the need to ratify the UNCRPD

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Marcella Corcoran Kennedy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Deirdre Clune', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Fintan Phelan', 'role': 'Councillor (Carlow County Council)'} {'name': 'Carol Nolan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Luke "Ming" Flanagan', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Inclusion Ireland

September–December

[Justice and Equality] Inclusion Ireland provided information and advice to a Councillor in relation to Changing Places in the lead up to a vote on a Council motion

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Sinéad Maguire', 'role': 'Councillor (Sligo County Council)'}

Inclusion Ireland

September–December

[Health] Inclusion Ireland submitted a parliamentary question on disability services funding via a Teachta Dála

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Billy Kelleher', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Inclusion Ireland

September–December

[Education and Training] Inclusion Ireland raised the issue of the restraint and seclusion of children with a disability in Irish schools

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Carol Nolan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Kathleen Funchion', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Inclusion Ireland

September–December

[Health] Minister Finian McGrath met with the Board of Inclusion Ireland to provide an update on the Minister's special responsibility

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Finian McGrath', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}

Inclusion Ireland

September–December

[Social Protection] Minister Regina Doherty launched an Inclusion Ireland document looking at Poverty and Disability

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Regina Doherty', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection)'}

Inclusion Ireland

September–December

[Justice and Equality] Discussion about Changing Places Ireland campaign

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Joe Carey', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Tosu Social Inclusion Ireland

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September–December

[Justice and Equality] Following up with Minister David Stantons office in respect of funding required for a client seeking an urgent service in the UK, which is currently unavailable to him in Ireland.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'David Stanton', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Justice and Equality)'}

Inclusion Ireland

January–April

[Health] Sinn Fein officials - General Election 2016

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Gerry Adams', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Inclusion Ireland

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Inclusion Ireland director Lorraine Dempsey - Seanad Election 2016

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Senators', 'role': ''} {'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': ''} {'name': 'Email All Councillors', 'role': ''}

Inclusion Ireland

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Letter to John McGuinness TD - Wards of Court

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'John McGuinness', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Inclusion Ireland

January–April

[Employment] Save WALK’s Disability Transition Programme for School-Leavers with Special Needs

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': ''}

Inclusion Ireland

January–April

[Health] Inviting Minister for Disabilities Finian McGrath to the Inclusion Ireland and Down Syndrome Ireland event on personalised budgets in the Gibson Hotel on Monday, May 30th from 10.00am-1.00pm.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Finian McGrath', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Inclusion Ireland

May–August

[Health] Reforms to the disability sector including introduction of personal budgets

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Margaret Murphy O'Mahony", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Inclusion Ireland

May–August

[Justice and Equality] Ward of Courts funds

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Bobby Aylward', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Peter Burke', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Shane Cassells', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Catherine Connolly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'David Cullinane', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Alan Farrell', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 7 more

Inclusion Ireland

May–August

[Health] Submission on the taskforce on introduction of personal budgets

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Simon Harris', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Finian McGrath', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Inclusion Ireland

May–August

[Public Expenditure and Reform] Disability Sector Reforms (Public Expenditure and Reform)

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'}

Inclusion Ireland

May–August

[Health] Disability Sector Reforms (Health)

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Simon Harris', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'}

Inclusion Ireland

September–December

[Justice and Equality] Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Jim O'Callaghan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Margaret Murphy O'Mahony", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Jonathan O'Brien", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Brendan Howlin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Catherine Martin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 8 more

Inclusion Ireland

September–December

[Health] Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Margaret Murphy O'Mahony", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Inclusion Ireland

September–December

[Social Protection] Cost of Disability

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Inclusion Ireland

September–December

[Justice and Equality] Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Colm Brophy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Inclusion Ireland

September–December

[Justice and Equality] Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Mick Wallace', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Clare Daly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Catherine Martin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

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