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Huhtamaki Cup Print Ltd.

September–December

[Environment] Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Joe Carey', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Cathal Crowe', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Timmy Dooley', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Ossian Smyth', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': "Darren O'Rourke", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Alan Farrell', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 37 more

National Centre for Youth Mental Health

September–December

[Children and Youth Affairs] Engagement with Minister Mary Butler regarding youth mental health event

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}

Friends of the Earth

September–December

[Environment] Climate policy and engagement

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Letter All Oireachtas Members', 'role': "Sent our recommendations together with Greta Thunberg's 'The Climate Book'. Sent via post with the exception of in person deliveries to Deputies Whitmore, Matthews, Leddin, Bruton, O'Rourke, Hourigan, Catherine Murphy, Howlin and Senator O'Reilly"} {'name': 'Paul Kenny', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'An Tánaiste (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': "Pauline O'Reilly", 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Sage Advocacy

September–December

[Health] Discussion on homecare and older people policy

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'David Cullinane', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Sage Advocacy

September–December

[Health] Women’s Caucus Workshop on the Care Economy

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Annie Hoey', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': "Fiona O'Loughlin", 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Marc Coleman

September–December

[Public Expenditure and Reform] General communications on need for more reform in government and more engagement with taxpayers and small business

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Robert Troy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Cormac Devlin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Willie O'Dea", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Éamon Ó Cuív', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Jennifer Carroll MacNeill', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Peadar Tóibín', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 9 more

Virgin Media Ireland Limited

September–December

[Communications] Official Languages (Amendment) Act 2021

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Aodhán Mac Cormaic', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media)'} {'name': 'Jack Chambers', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Sam Griffin', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Catherine Martin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Social Innovation Growth Fund Ireland Limited trading as Rethink Ireland.

September–December

[Community] To engage with Minister around a feasibility study on social outcomes

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Darragh O'Brien", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'Graham Doyle', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'}

Irish Wildbird Conservancy

September–December

[Environment] Fisheries management in climate action, and implementation of Article 17 of the Common Fisheries Policy

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Brian Leddin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Marc Ó Cathasaigh', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Grace O'Sullivan", 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': "Darren O'Rourke", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Paul Kenny', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'David Healy', 'role': 'Adviser to Minister (Department of the Taoiseach)'}

BiggerStage

September–December

[Economic Development and Industry] The development of the unscripted production sector in Ireland

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'} {'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'} {'name': 'Catherine Martin', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media)'} {'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Deirdre Gillane', 'role': 'Chief of Staff (Department of the Taoiseach)'} + 8 more

Sage Advocacy

September–December

[Health] Discussion around issues affecting older people arising from casework.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Corona Joyce', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Health)'}

Sage Advocacy

September–December

[Health] Sinn Féin engagement with sector groups

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'David Cullinane', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Sage Advocacy

September–December

[Community] Informal discussion around Victim's Forum

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Helen McEntee', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice)'}

Sage Advocacy

September–December

[Health] Discussion on Older People & Patient Advocacy services

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}

Freight Transport Association of Ireland

September–December

[Transport] FTA Ireland Transport Manager Seminar - Keynote address

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Hildegarde Naughton', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Transport)'}

Freight Transport Association of Ireland

September–December

[Transport] Launch of the Managers Guide to Distribution Costs

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Hildegarde Naughton', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Transport)'}

Sage Advocacy

September–December

[Health] Correspondence regarding the reopening of day care services for older people in Donegal post Covid 19

Public Officials Lobbied

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

GIY Ireland

September–December

[Education and Training] Sent a summary (one page printed graphic) on GIY's GROW at School programme in addition to a copy of GIY Diaries book to public representatives who we had engaged in relation to this programme in 2022

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Marc Ó Cathasaigh', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Norma Foley', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Education)'} {'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Aisling Dolan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Pippa Hackett', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'}

Meath Women's Aid Housing Association Company Limited by Guarantee

September–December

[Housing] We wrote to the Minister for Housing to seek a meeting on behalf of Domestic Violence Services in the Eastern Region about a position paper we have developed and sent him about our policy proposals to address the shortage of step down accommodation post refuge for women and children, given the housing crisis.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Darragh O'Brien", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'}

Sign Language Interpreting Service

September–December

[Justice and Equality] Funding for services in 2023 following end of NDIS 2017-2022

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Heather Humphreys', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Social Protection)'} {'name': 'Niall Egan', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Social Protection)'}

Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Ireland

September–December

[Children and Youth Affairs] JRS Ireland attends and participates on the NGO Stakeholder Engagement Forum on Ukraine, convened by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Carol Baxter', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth)'}

Society of St. Vincent de Paul

September–December

[Children and Youth Affairs] Engagement with elected representatives on the need for a child poverty strategy and a lead department to oversea implementation

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Mary Seery Kearney', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Macra na Feirme

September–December

[Agriculture] Call with Deputy Fitzmaurice in relation to Lough Funshinagh Flooding and the need to find drainage solutions

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Age Action

September–December

[Health] Attendance at Sinn Féin roundtable discussion on home support and older persons' policy

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'David Cullinane', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Macra na Feirme

September–December

[Agriculture] Text message to Ministerial adviser in relation to Land Mobility Service

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Patrick Donohoe', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'}

Age Action

September–December

[Health] Age Action meeting with Minister Mary Butler

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Corona Joyce', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Health)'}

Age Action

September–December

[Community] Attendance at the National Civic Forum

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Joe O'Brien", 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Rural and Community Development)'} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Heather Humphreys', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Rural and Community Development)'}

ALONE

September–December

[Housing] Housing policy for older people, Housing Choices for our Ageing Population Joint Policy Statement

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Age Action

September–December

[Economic Development and Industry] Attendance as a NESC representative for the Community and Voluntary Pillar

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Martin Fraser', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Elizabeth Canavan', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of the Taoiseach)'}

Age Action

September–December

[Budgetary matters] Attendance at DSP post-Budget briefing

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Teresa Leonard', 'role': 'Deputy Secretary (Department of Social Protection)'}

Lobbying Tracker

Most Lobbied TDs