Overwatch Report

Uplift

January–April

[Housing] Uplift members emailed TD asking them to ensure that appropriate protections are put in place during and after the Covid-19 healthcare emergency to protect renters and tenants whose mortgages have been bought up by vulture funds and that neither of these groups will be subject to mortgage or rent arrears once the crisis is over

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': '530 emails sent'}

Uplift

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Uplift members emailed the Justice Minister and the justice representatives of other parties to demand that An Garda Síochána be allowed to make emergency barring orders during the Covid-19 healthcare emergency to protect victims of domestic violence

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Charles Flanagan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice and Equality)'} {'name': 'Seán Sherlock', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Jim O'Callaghan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Padráig Mac Lochlainn', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Róisín Shorthall', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Roderic O'Gorman", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Uplift

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Uplift members emailed TDs asking them to ensure that regularisation of undocumented people is included the next programme for government

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': '194 emails sent'}

Uplift

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Uplift members emailed their TDs asking them to commit to Uplift's Peoples Programme for Government

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Uplift

January–April

[Housing] Uplift members called TDs to ask them to commit to building public homes on public land, and not to sell off publicly owned land

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Phone call All TDs', 'role': ''}

Uplift

January–April

[EU Affairs] EU Fisheries Policy

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Grace O'Sullivan", 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Uplift

January–April

[Public Expenditure and Reform] Uplift members held an online call with public officials asking them to sign up to Uplift's People's Plan for Government

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Annie Hoey', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'James Lawless', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Róisín Shorthall', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Gino Kenny', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Galway Film Resource Centre Limited

January–April

[Finance] Section 481 Regional Film Development Uplift

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Derek Moran', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Josepha Madigan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht)'} {'name': 'Katherine Licken', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht)'} {'name': 'Conor Falvey', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht)'} {'name': 'Heather Humphreys', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation)'} + 10 more

Galway Film Resource Centre Limited

May–August

[Arts] Section 481 Regional Film Development Uplift

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Catherine Martin', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media)'} {'name': 'Katherine Licken', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht)'} {'name': 'Conor Falvey', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht)'} {'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Derek Moran', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Heather Humphreys', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Social Protection)'} + 5 more

Galway Film Resource Centre Limited

May–August

[Arts] Section 481 Regional Film Development Uplift

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Pearse Doherty', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Padráig Mac Lochlainn', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Charlie McConalogue', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Joe McHugh', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Alan Dillon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Rose Conway-Walsh', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 13 more

Uplift

May–August

[Marine] Uplift members emailed Minister Calleary asking him to stop the destruction being caused by supertrawlers on marine life and coastal community livelihoods by installing REM (Remote Electronic Monitoring) onboard supertrawlers

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Dara Calleary', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture and the Marine)'}

Uplift

May–August

[Justice and Equality] Uplift members emailed Minister McEntee demanding that Una McGurk be removed from the International Protection Appeals Tribunal

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Uplift

May–August

[Housing] Uplift members made phone calls to Minister O'Brien asking him to vote for the full ban on evictions to be reinstated as soon as possible

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Uplift

May–August

[Housing] Uplift members emailed their TDs asking them to vote for the full ban on evictions to be reinstated as soon as possible.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': '1782 emails sent'}

Uplift

May–August

[Social Protection] Uplift members emailed Minister O'Gorman asking that Jennifer Hynes be provided with a place to live with supports fit for purpose.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Roderic O'Gorman", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth)'}

Uplift

May–August

[Heritage] Uplift members emailed Minister Noonan asking that Toon Woods in Cork be urgently recognised as a Natural Heritage SIte

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Malcolm Noonan', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'}

Uplift

May–August

[Social Protection] Uplift members contacted DPOs via social media to ask that maternity leave and benefit be extended to new mothers due to childcare restrictions as a result of Covid-19

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Helen McEntee', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice)'} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Heather Humphreys', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Social Protection)'} {'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'}

Uplift

May–August

[Social Protection] Uplift members emailed TDs asking that the Covid Pandemic Unemployment benefit be restored to €350 for people in the music and entertainment industry

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Holly Cairns', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Michael Collins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Christopher O'Sullivan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Uplift

May–August

[Social Protection] Uplift members emailed Minister O'Gorman to ask that maternity leave and benefit be extended to new mothers due to childcare restrictions as a result of Covid-19

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Roderic O'Gorman", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth)'}

Uplift

May–August

[Social Protection] Uplift members emailed DPOs asking them to extend maternity leave and benefit for new mothers as a result of childcare restrictions due to Covid-10

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Regina Doherty', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection)'} {'name': 'Charles Flanagan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice and Equality)'}

Uplift

May–August

[Justice and Equality] Uplift members made phone calles to DPOs asking them to end Direct Provision

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Charles Flanagan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice and Equality)'} {'name': "Jim O'Callaghan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Roderic O'Gorman", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth)'}

Uplift

May–August

[Justice and Equality] Uplift members emailed DPOs asking them to end Direct Provision

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'David Stanton', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Justice and Equality)'} {'name': 'Charles Flanagan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice and Equality)'}

Uplift

May–August

[Social Protection] Emails sent to Minister Flanagan asking for maternity leave for new mothers to be extended

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Charles Flanagan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice and Equality)'}

Uplift

May–August

[Housing] Tweets sent to Fianna Fáil TDs asking them to include public housing policy in the plan for new government

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Social Media All TDs', 'role': 'Tweeted at all Fianna Fáil TDs'} {'name': 'Anne Rabbitte', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Barry Cowen', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Dara Calleary', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Darragh O'Brien", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 1 more

Uplift

May–August

[Social Protection] Emails sent to Minister Doherty asking for maternity leave for new mothers to be extended

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Uplift

May–August

[Justice and Equality] Phone calls to the Minister of Justice Charles Flanagan asking him to move asylum seekers out of Direct Provision centres due to unsafe conditions due to Covid-19

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Charles Flanagan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice and Equality)'}

Uplift

May–August

[Social Protection] Phone call to Brid Smith TD asking that she bring up the subject in the Daíl of extending maternity leave to new mothers due to Covid-19 restrictions on childcare.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Bríd Smith', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Uplift

May–August

[Social Protection] Phone call to Marc Ó Cathasaigh asking that he bring to the Green Party's attention the issue of extending maternity leave to new mothers due to Covid-19 restrictions on childcare.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Marc Ó Cathasaigh', 'role': 'Councillor (Waterford City and County Council)'}

Uplift

May–August

[Social Protection] Phone call to Willie O'Dea TD asking that he bring up the subject in the Daíl of extending maternity leave to new mothers due to Covid-19 restrictions on childcare.

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Uplift

May–August

[Social Protection] Phone call to Senator Marie Sherlock asking that she bring up the subject in the Daíl of extending maternity leave to new mothers due to Covid-19 restrictions on childcare.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Marie Sherlock', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

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