Overwatch Report

Uplift

May–August

[Communications] Uplift pushed to ensure the Online Media Transparency Bill enhances rather than obstructs democracy.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'James Lawless', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Uplift

May–August

[Health] Uplift members worked to improve Cervical Check for women's safety and health.

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Uplift

May–August

[Justice and Equality] Uplift members called for leave to remain for 14 year old Nonso and his family.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Charlie Flanagan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Uplift

May–August

[Justice and Equality] Uplift members pushed to stop the deportation of 14 year old Nonso and his family.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': 'To ask their TDs to ask Charlie Flanagan to grant Nonso Muojeke Leave to Remain.'}

Uplift

May–August

[Justice and Equality] Uplift members pushed to lift the work ban on asylum seekers in full.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': 'Emails to all TDs calling on them to support full work rights for asylum seekers.'}

Uplift

May–August

[Environment] Uplift members emailed the Select committee for Climate Action, Environment and Communications urging them to maintain their support of the Climate emergency Bill.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Hildegarde Naughton', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Bríd Smith', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Brian Stanley', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Michael Lowry', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'James Lawless', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 1 more

Uplift

May–August

[Environment] Uplift members emailed senators to ask them not to pass changes to the Heritage bill that would allow the slash and burn of our hedgerows.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Ivana Bacik', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Sean D. Barrett', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Paul Bradford', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Terry Brennan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Colm Burke', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Paddy Burke', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} + 97 more

Uplift

May–August

[Environment] Uplift members called upon our TDs to support the Climate Emergency Bill

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Uplift

May–August

[Agriculture] Uplift tweeted at Michael Creed calling on him to ban Glyphosate being sprayed on cereal crops.

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Uplift

May–August

[Housing] Uplift members tweeted at Eoghan Murphy, Housing Minister, calling on him to support solutions to the housing crisis.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Eoghan Murphy', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)'}

Uplift

May–August

[Local Government] Uplift members pushed to keep the former Magdalene Laundry on Gloucester st, Dublin, in public ownership.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Anthony Connaghan', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Janice Boylan', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Chris Andrews', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Criona Ní Dhálaigh', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Emma Murphy', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Gaye Fagan', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} + 5 more

Uplift

September–December

[Environment] Uplift members contacted members of the Climate Action Committee urging them to support the Climate Emergency Bill in committee stage

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'There is no option for members of a select committee - we targeted members of the Joint Committee on Climate Action, Environment and Communications.'} {'name': 'Bríd Smith', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Brian Stanley', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Michael Lowry', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Hildegarde Naughton', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 6 more

Uplift

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Contacted every TD with a petition calling on Simon Coveney to expel the Israeli ambassador following attacks by the military on unarmed Palestinian civillians

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Uplift

September–December

[Justice and Equality] Uplift members are calling on Charlie Flanagan to stop the deportation of Eric, a school child from Bray

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Charlie Flanagan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Uplift

September–December

[Health] Uplift members contacted TDs calling on them to stay strong and not give into a push from anti abortion groups to water down the Repeal legislation.

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Uplift

September–December

[Housing] Uplift members contacted councillors calling on them to support cost rental housing at O'Devaney Gardens

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Chris Andrews', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Catherine Ardagh', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Kieran Binchy', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Cathleen Boud', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Paddy Bourke', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Janice Boylan', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} + 65 more

Uplift

September–December

[Environment] Uplift members delivered a petition calling on the Environment Committee to pass the Waste Reduction Bill

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Catherine Martin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Bríd Smith', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Brian Stanley', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Uplift

September–December

[Development and Zoning] Uplift members contacted their TDs calling on them to stop Shannon LNG from being built - a huge processing plant for fracked shale gas from the US.

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Uplift

September–December

[Agriculture] Uplift tweeted at Michael Creed calling on him to ban Glyphosate being sprayed on cereal crops.

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Uplift

September–December

[Development and Zoning] Uplift members pushed to keep the former Magdalene Laundry on Gloucester st, Dublin, in public ownership.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Gaye Fagan', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Criona Ní Dhálaigh', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Ray McAdam', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Janice Boylan', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Ray McHugh', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Mary Lou McDonald', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 2 more

Uplift

September–December

[Environment] Uplift tweeted at Richard Bruton and Paschal Donohue calling on them to increase the carbon tax

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Richard Bruton', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'}

Uplift

September–December

[Social Protection] Uplift members met with Regina Doherty to deliver a petition calling for the Youth Safety Net to be restored

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Uplift

September–December

[Justice and Equality] Uplift members called on Charlie Flanagan to put in place measures to protect rape victims from retraumatising treatment in court

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Charlie Flanagan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

An Taisce The National Trust for Ireland

January–April

[Heritage] An 'Uplift' campaign to get the public to ask Minister Humphreys "We ask you to reconsider your proposal to change the Wildlife Act to allow for the burning of vegetation in March and the cutting of hedgerows in August and establish proper hedgerow and upland management regimes that works for farming, road safety and wildlife."

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'Used Uplift (https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/no-to-more-slash-and-burn) to ask people to email Minister Humphreys and ask her "We ask you to reconsider your proposal to change the Wildlife Act to allow for the burning of vegetation in March and the cutting of hedgerows in August and establish proper hedgerow and upland management regimes that works for farming, road safety and wildlife."'}

Sisters of Mercy

January–April

[Energy and Natural Resources] Signed a petition from Uplift

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Mercy International Association

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Uplift Petition calling on Michael Noonan not to block European Commission proposals that will close down tax dodging loopholes?

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michael Noonan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'}

Uplift

January–April

[Health] The proposal to allow the Sisters of Charity to own the new National Maternity Hospital

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Uplift

January–April

[Health] called 3 Dublin County Councillors who are members of the National Maternity Hospital Board

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Mícheál MacDonncha', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Claire Byrne', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Brendan Carr', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'}

Uplift

May–August

[Health] National Maternity Hospital proposal to allow Sisters of Charity ownership

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Uplift

January–April

[Health] proposal to allow National Maternity Hospital to be owned by Sisters of Charity

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Lobbying Tracker

Most Lobbied TDs