Overwatch Report

Environmental Pillar

May–August

[Marine] Input to Seanad Motion on Marine Protected Areas

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Grace O'Sullivan", 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Environmental Pillar

May–August

[Environment] Input to Seanda debate reaction to Government amendments to Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Grace O'Sullivan", 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Environmental Pillar

September–December

[Marine] EU negotiations on Fisheries Opportunities.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michael Creed', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'}

Environmental Pillar

September–December

[Marine] Deep Sea Fishing Stocks

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michael Creed', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Cecil Beamish', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Brendan Gleeson', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'}

Environmental Pillar

September–December

[Agriculture] CAP

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michael Creed', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Brendan Gleeson', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'}

Environmental Pillar

September–December

[Agriculture] Forestry, Brexit, Deep Sea Fisheries, CAP, High Nature Value Farming, Nitrates, Climate Change

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michael Creed', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Brendan Gleeson', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Andrew Doyle', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Colm Hayes', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Áine Kilroy', 'role': 'Special Advisor (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'}

Environmental Pillar

September–December

[Finance] National Economic Dialogue 2018

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Environmental Pillar

September–December

[Transport] Repeat of request to meet with Minister Ross

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Shane Ross', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport)'}

Environmental Pillar

September–December

[Heritage] Building political ownership and strengthening compliance on Nature across the EU

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Josepha Madigan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht)'}

Environmental Pillar

September–December

[Heritage] Protecting the Environment in the Forthcoming Political Declaration on the future EU-UK relationship

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Josepha Madigan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht)'}

Environmental Pillar

September–December

[Heritage] Protecting the Environment in the Forthcoming Political Declaration on the future EU-UK relationship

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Josepha Madigan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht)'} {'name': 'Michael Creed', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Bill Callanan', 'role': 'Chief Inspector (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'}

Environmental Pillar

September–December

[Environment] Will nature be on the European Council menu?

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'Helen McEntee', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of the Taoiseach)'}

Environmental Pillar

September–December

[Environment] Environmental Pillar proposals for election manifestos

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Environmental Pillar

September–December

[Environment] NDP, Housing, (Planning, and Energy), Water, Water and CAP, Marine Protected Areas, SDGs

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Eoghan Murphy', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)'} {'name': 'David Walsh', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)'} {'name': 'Maria Graham', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)'}

Environmental Pillar

January–April

[Agriculture] Mid term Forestry Review

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Andrew Doyle', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Bill Callanan', 'role': 'Chief Inspector (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'}

Environmental Pillar

January–April

[Agriculture] Meeting on Climate Change, Soils and the CAP

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michael Creed', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Brid Cannon', 'role': 'Second Secretary General (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Jonathan Hoare', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'}

Environmental Pillar

May–August

[Environment] Meeting to discuss Climate Action

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Denis Naughten', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Brian Carroll', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}

Environmental Pillar

May–August

[Marine] Meeting to discuss Sustainability in the marine ecosystems

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michael Creed', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Cecil Beamish', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Jonathan Hoare', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'}

Environmental Pillar

May–August

[Environment] Aviation and its increasing impact on Climate Change

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Denis Naughten', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}

Environmental Pillar

January–April

[Environment] Request for a meeting

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Denis Naughten', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}

Environmental Pillar

January–April

[Marine] Attempts to re-introduce subsidies for the construction of fishing vessels

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Matt Carthy', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Lynn Boylan', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Luke "Ming" Flanagan', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Liadh Ní Riada', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Marian Harkin', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Deirdre Clune', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} + 4 more

Environmental Pillar

January–April

[Energy and Natural Resources] Clean Energy Package

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Denis Naughten', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}

Environmental Pillar

May–August

[Environment] Meeting to discuss , the implementation the SDGs

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Ross Elwood', 'role': 'Special Advisor (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}

Environmental Pillar

May–August

[Environment] Meeting to discuss the fisheries targets in relation to ICES results

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michael Creed', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Cecil Beamish', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'}

Coalition 2030

May–August

[Budgetary matters] Budget 2018 Submission from the Environmental Pillar

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Denis Naughten', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Shane Ross', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport)'} {'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Derek Moran', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Robert Watt', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'}

Voice of Irish Concern for the Environment

May–August

[Environment] Met with Dail officials and TDs re: the Environmental Pillar's budget proposal

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Denis Naughten', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'}

Environmental Pillar

May–August

[Environment] Request to Eamon Ryan TD to encourage the members of t he Green Party to sign a petition calling on the European Commission to initiate the process for the development of a Soils Directive.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Environmental Pillar

September–December

[Environment] Public Participation in Decision-making re Brexit

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Denis Naughten', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'Eoghan Murphy', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government)'}

Environmental Pillar

September–December

[Environment] Brexit and the Environment

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Environmental Pillar

September–December

[Environment] The findings of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Denis Naughten', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Mark Griffin', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Brian Carroll', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Ross Elwood', 'role': 'Special Advisor (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}

Lobbying Tracker

Most Lobbied TDs