Overwatch Report

Irish Wildlife Trust CLG.

January–April

[Heritage] Petition delivered regarding the Heritage Bill 2016.

Public Officials Lobbied

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

A&L Goodbody

January–April

[Finance] Irish Funds written submission in response to request from Department of Finance, co-signed by A&L Goodbody and certain other member firms of Irish Funds regarding the making of ministerial orders pursuant to (a) Companies Act 2014, sections 1408(2) and 1412(2) and (b) Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Act 2015 sections 145(2) and 149(2)

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'}

Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland

January–April

[Taxation] Investment Undertaking Tax and Agent Link Forms

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Joe Howley', 'role': 'Assistant Secretaries or Equivalent Grades (The Office of the Revenue Commissioners)'}

Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland

January–April

[Taxation] Access to information following a change in agent

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Joe Howley', 'role': 'Assistant Secretaries or Equivalent Grades (The Office of the Revenue Commissioners)'}

Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland

January–April

[Taxation] Management Buyouts

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Declan Rigney', 'role': 'Assistant Secretaries or Equivalent Grades (The Office of the Revenue Commissioners)'}

Unite the Union, Ireland Region

January–April

[Employment] Employment conditions of English Language Teachers

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Irish Heart Foundation

January–April

[Health] Chronic Disease Management

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Louise O'Reilly", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Billy Kelleher', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Bernard Durkan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Michael Harty', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Alan Kelly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Margaret Murphy O'Mahony", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 5 more

Unite the Union, Ireland Region

January–April

[Employment] The need for intervention on behalf of Unite members who had worked for LanLearn English Language School in Limerick, enabling them to make an application to the Insolvency Payments Scheme

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Unite the Union, Ireland Region

January–April

[Education and Training] Need for fast-tracking of the Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Amendment) Bill to prevent following closure of the LanLearn English Language school in Limerick; need for intervention to allow teachers employed at the school to access the Insolvency Payments Scheme

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Richard Bruton', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Education and Skills)'}

Unite the Union, Ireland Region

January–April

[Justice and Equality] English Language Teaching sector

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Unite the Union, Ireland Region

January–April

[Education and Training] Situation of teachers left unpaid by LanLearn language school in Limerick following the school's sudden closure

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Electricity Association of Ireland (EAI)

January–April

[Energy and Natural Resources] Clean Energy Package

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Lynn Boylan', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Matt Carthy', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Nessa Childers', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Deirdre Clune', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Brian Crowley', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Luke "Ming" Flanagan', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} + 5 more

Age Action

January–April

[Housing] Housing Adaptation Grants

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Pat Casey', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Eoin Ó Broin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Fergus O'Dowd", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Maria Bailey', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Victor Boyhan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

The Irish Co-operative Organisation Society Ltd

January–April

[Agriculture] EU Trade agenda

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Seán Kelly', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice

January–April

[Social Protection] Higher rate of Qualified Child Increase for older children, aged 12 plus

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Regina Doherty', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection)'} {'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'} {'name': 'Katherine Zappone', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'} {'name': 'John McKeon', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection)'} + 5 more

Social Care Association of Ireland

January–April

[Children and Youth Affairs] Writing on behalf of Social Care Ireland around the Digital Age of consent

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Denis Naughten', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Seán Sherlock', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

William Fry

January–April

[Banking and Financial Institutions] Irish Funds submission in response to a request from Department of Finance, co-signed by William Fry and certain other member firms of Irish Funds regarding the making of ministerial orders pursuant to (a) Companies Act 2014, sections 1408(2) and 1412(2) and (b) Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Act 2015 sections 145(2) and 149(2)

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Derek Moran', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Finance)'}

American Chamber of Commerce Ireland

January–April

[Taxation] Business Agenda of the American Chamber 2018

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'John Hogan', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Finance)'}

American Chamber of Commerce Ireland

January–April

[Economic Development and Industry] Research, Development and Innovation Agenda of the American Chamber

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Ibec

January–April

[Economic Development and Industry] Engagement with Ibec / CBI Joint Business Council

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Heather Humphreys', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation)'}

Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (IMHO)

January–April

[Housing] Debt issues affecting farmers

Public Officials Lobbied

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

iCare Housing CLG

January–April

[Housing] Discussions on mortgage to rent progress

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Mary Hurley', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)'} {'name': 'Eoghan Murphy', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government)'}

Nursing Homes Ireland

May–August

[Employment] Representation to Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation Heather Humphreys regarding requirement to remove role of Healthcare Assistants from the Ineligible Categories of Employment List, on a controlled basis. Measure is required to address shortage of suitably qualified healthcare assistants. presenting serious consequences for care of the older person

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Heather Humphreys', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation)'}

Chambers Ireland

January–April

[Foreign Affairs] To ask for Government to consider positive impact of private sector engagement with the sustainable development goals as part of the Voluntary National Review.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Denis Naughten', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Geraldine Byrne Nason', 'role': 'Second Secretary General (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Nursing Homes Ireland

May–August

[Employment] Grassroots lobbying campaign regarding requirement to remove role of Healthcare Assistants from the Ineligible Categories of Employment Listing, on a controlled basis. Measure is required to address shortage of suitably qualified healthcare assistants. presenting serious consequences for care of the older person.

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Ulster Bank Ireland DAC

January–April

[Banking and Financial Institutions] Update on Mortgage Arrears including discussion on the draft Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms (Amendment) Bill 2018

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Gary Tobin', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Finance)'}

Restaurants Association of Ireland

January–April

[Social Protection] Written submission made to the Low Pay Commission upon calls by the commission for consultation from industry. Consultation requested on the appropriate rate of the National Minimum Wage for consideration in the Low Pay Commissions 2019 report and recommendations to Government.

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Tiber Island Advisory Ltd

on behalf of Yes (client not named)

January–April

[Energy and Natural Resources] Recast of the EU Directive on the promotion of renewable energy sources (RES), as part of the 'Clean Energy for all Europeans' package. And the proposed increase in the Biofuels Obligation Scheme in Ireland.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Seán Kelly', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Michael Manley', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}

Permanent TSB Plc

January–April

[Housing] A Meeting was held on 16 March 2018 with Minister English (Minister of State for Housing and Urban Renewal), Mary Hurley (Assistant Secretary at the Minister’s Department) and others at Custom House, Dublin to discuss the revised Mortgage to Rent Scheme announced by the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government on 7 February 2018.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Damien English', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)'} {'name': 'Mary Hurley', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)'}

Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators (ALTO) Limited

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Digital Age of Consent - Part of work with ALTO and the Internet Content Advisory Group - ICGAG.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Jim O'Callaghan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Timmy Dooley', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'James Lawless', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Denis Naughten', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Seán Sherlock', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 1 more

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