Overwatch Report

National Women's Council of Ireland

September–December

[Budgetary matters] Budgetary Processes

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'William Beausang', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'}

National Women's Council of Ireland

September–December

[Budgetary matters] Budgetary Processes

Public Officials Lobbied

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

National Women's Council of Ireland

September–December

[Budgetary matters] Budgetary Processes

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Ruairí de Búrca', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'Ann Derwin', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'Bairbre Nic Aongusa', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Rural and Community Development)'}

National Women's Council of Ireland

September–December

[Public Expenditure and Reform] National Pension Policy

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Anne Vaughan', 'role': 'Deputy Secretary (Department of Social Protection)'}

National Women's Council of Ireland

September–December

[Health] Joint Oireachtas Committee on the 8th Amendment

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Lisa Chambers', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Clare Daly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Catherine Murphy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Kate O'Connell", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Jan O'Sullivan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Catherine Noone', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} + 4 more

National Women's Council of Ireland

September–December

[Budgetary matters] Budget 2018

Public Officials Lobbied

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

National Women's Council of Ireland

September–December

[Budgetary matters] Budget 2018

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Bernard Durkan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Regina Doherty', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection)'} {'name': 'Alice-Mary Higgins', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Catherine Martin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

National Women's Council of Ireland

September–December

[Budgetary matters] Budget 2018

Public Officials Lobbied

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

National Women's Council of Ireland

September–December

[Budgetary matters] Budgetary Processes

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Catherine Connolly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Womens Aid

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Meeting with Senator Maria Cahill, Ellen O'Reilly-Dunlop CEO Dublin Rape Crisis Centre and Orla O'Connor, CEO National Women's Council of Ireland

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Máiría Cahill', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

National Women's Council of Ireland

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Multiple issues contained General Election Manifestos

Public Officials Lobbied

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

National Women's Council of Ireland

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Multiple issues contained General Election Manifestos

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

National Women's Council of Ireland

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Women's Equality issues contained General Election Manifestos

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'Last Call to Make It #FemGen Election'}

National Women's Council of Ireland

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Met with Minister Frances Fitzgerald to discuss Domestic and Sexual Violence

Public Officials Lobbied

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

National Women's Council of Ireland

January–April

[Justice and Equality] EU accession to the Istanbul Convention

Public Officials Lobbied

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

National Women's Council of Ireland

January–April

[Community] Gender-proofing local and community development

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Gerald Dollard', 'role': 'Director of Services or Equivalent (Clare County Council)'} {'name': 'Paul Moynihan', 'role': 'Director of Services or Equivalent (Cork City Council)'} {'name': 'Peter Minnock', 'role': 'Director of Services or Equivalent (Kildare County Council)'} {'name': 'Maria Melia', 'role': 'Director of Services or Equivalent (Kilkenny County Council)'} {'name': 'Joseph Gilhooly', 'role': 'Director of Services or Equivalent (Leitrim County Council)'} {'name': 'Declan Kirrane', 'role': 'Director of Services or Equivalent (Offaly County Council)'} + 3 more

National Women's Council of Ireland

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Violence against women

Public Officials Lobbied

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

National Women's Council of Ireland

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Seeking support for NWCI General Election Manifesto

Public Officials Lobbied

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

National Women's Council of Ireland

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Seeking support for NWCI General Election Manifesto from Party Leaders

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Catherine Murphy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Gerry Adams', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Joan Burton', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Enda Kenny', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'}

National Women's Council of Ireland

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Seeking support on NWCI General Election Manifesto

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Áine Kilroy', 'role': 'Special Advisor (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'}

National Women's Council of Ireland

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Meeting request re NWCI General Election Manifesto

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Brian Murphy', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Health)'}

National Women's Council of Ireland

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Meeting request re NWCI General Election Manifesto

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Angela Flanagan', 'role': 'Special Advisor (Department of the Taoiseach)'}

National Women's Council of Ireland

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Build support for NWCI General Election Manifesto

Public Officials Lobbied

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

National Women's Council of Ireland

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Building support for NWCI General Election Manifesto

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Frances Fitzgerald', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice and Equality)'} {'name': 'Eoghan Murphy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

National Women's Council of Ireland

January–April

[Public Expenditure and Reform] Invite: Women's parliamentary Breakfast

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Catherine Byrne', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Joan Burton', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Áine Collins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Joan Collins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Ciara Conway', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Ruth Coppinger', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 37 more

National Women's Council of Ireland

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Invite to event re: success of gender quota

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': 'sent invitation to all TDs to attend event entitled Celebrate the Changemakers'}

National Women's Council of Ireland

January–April

[Public Expenditure and Reform] Event reflecting on General Election, and impact on women

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Bríd Smith', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Lisa Chambers', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Kate O'Connell", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Catherine Murphy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Lynn Boylan', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Joan Collins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 1 more

National Women's Council of Ireland

January–April

[Public Expenditure and Reform] Meeting in relation to Dáil Reform

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Seán Ó Fearghaíl', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Peter Finnegan', 'role': 'Secretary General (The Houses of the Oireachtas Service)'}

National Women's Council of Ireland

May–August

[Health] Request for meeting regarding different aspects of women's health

Public Officials Lobbied

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

National Women's Council of Ireland

May–August

[Health] Informing Minister of State for Mental Health on upcoming World Congress on Women's Mental Health

Public Officials Lobbied

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

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