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Comhlámh

September–December

[Health] Discussion on 'Access to Medicines' recommendations for the ongoing pandemic treaty

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'}

Comhlámh

September–December

[Health] Discussion on 'Access to Medicines' recommendations for the ongoing pandemic treaty

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Lynn Ruane', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Comhlámh

September–December

[Health] Discussion on 'Access to Medicines' recommendations for the ongoing pandemic treaty

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Comhlámh

January–April

[Foreign Affairs] World Health Oragnisation Covid 19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP)

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'John Brady', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Darren O'Rourke", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Brendan Howlin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Richard Boyd Barrett', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Charles Flanagan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Vincent P Martin', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} + 5 more

Comhlámh

January–April

[Housing] Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (DHPLG) regarding the Department’s submission to the Advisory Group on Direct Provision

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Comhlámh

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Appeal to Minister O’Gorman to confirm travel dates for those Syrian families in Lebanon, already matched with Community Sponsorship Groups in Ireland, whose travel plans were cancelled at late notice in recent months.

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Comhlámh

January–April

[Trade] Ireland's ratification of the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement between the EU and Canada (CETA)

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Submission All TDs', 'role': 'The submission was attached to an email. https://comhlamh.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/CETA-ICS-Fact-Checker.pdf'} {'name': 'Joe McHugh', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Marian Harkin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Dara Calleary', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Seán Haughey', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Lisa Chambers', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} + 8 more

Comhlámh

September–December

[Health] Seeking support for the TRIPS waiver in relation to Covid-19 vaccines

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Paul Gavan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': "Pauline O'Reilly", 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'David Norris', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Lynn Ruane', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Alice-Mary Higgins', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Eileen Flynn', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} + 24 more

Comhlámh

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Refugee crisis in Greece

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All MEPs', 'role': ''} {'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Tánaiste and 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)'} {'name': 'Helen McEntee', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Comhlámh

January–April

[Health] Covid19 pandemic in centres housing those seeking asylum

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Comhlámh

January–April

[Foreign Affairs] Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': 'Individual emails were sent to each TD by various members of the group.'}

Comhlámh

January–April

[Health] Party manifestoes in advance of the general election

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Róisín Shorthall', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Brendan Howlin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Mary Lou McDonald', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 1 more

Comhlámh

May–August

[Foreign Affairs] Israel's threatened annexation of West Bank land

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Comhlámh

May–August

[Foreign Affairs] Israel's arrest of Palestinian BDS National Committee’s General Coordinator, Mahmoud Nawajaa

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Comhlámh

September–December

[Health] That Ireland should support the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP)

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'A policy briefing document outlining the details of what was being asked for was shared. https://mcusercontent.com/d036683fe38bd0db487e08ee1/files/6134d94f-d6e0-4850-aaa7-798fbd1b8466/AMI_C_TAP_Policy_Doc.pdf'} {'name': 'Email All MEPs', 'role': 'A policy briefing document outlining the details of what was being asked for was shared. https://mcusercontent.com/d036683fe38bd0db487e08ee1/files/6134d94f-d6e0-4850-aaa7-798fbd1b8466/AMI_C_TAP_Policy_Doc.pdf'}

Comhlámh

September–December

[Trade] Ireland's ratification of the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement between the EU and Canada

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Comhlámh

January–April

[Health] Fair and equitable access to effective medicines.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'All MEPs were also emailed as with members of the Oireachtas'} {'name': 'Lisa Chambers', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Tommy Broughan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Bobby Aylward', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Seán Kyne', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Rural and Community Development)'} {'name': "Michael D'Arcy", 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Finance)'} + 21 more

Comhlámh

May–August

[Health] Italian government resolution for the World Health Assembly on drug price transparency,

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All MEPs', 'role': ''} {'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': ''} {'name': 'Bernard Durkan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Comhlámh

May–August

[Health] Raise awareness of the outcomes of the 3rd Annual Access to Medicines Conference through sharing the report

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'All members were invited to a briefing in the AV Room of Leinster House hosted by Dr Michael Harty, TD. A copy of the report is here: https://www.accesstomedicines.ie/conference-report'} {'name': 'Michael Harty', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Tearfund Ireland

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] 21 Nov 2019, Comhlámh Orphanage Working Group met members of the Dáil's Committee on Foreign Affairs & Trade: Outlined issues around volunteering in orphanages and the harm caused to children in institutional care. Asked for further discussion on these issues with the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade; and for the Joint Committee to consider all recommendations contained in the report Children First: A Global Perspective on Volunteering in Orphanages and Transformin

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Niall Collins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Brendan Smith', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Comhlámh

September–December

[Justice and Equality] We requested that the Minister consider favourably the request of Mr Mfaco to remain in the state

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Comhlámh

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] The subject matter concerned the government's international development policy and its response to the issue of volunteering in orphanages

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Brendan Smith', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Niall Collins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Comhlámh

January–April

[Foreign Affairs] Ireland's Voluntary National Review of the Sustainable Development Goals

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Ciarán Cannon', 'role': 'Minister of State for the Diaspora and Overseas Development Aid (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Comhlámh

January–April

[Foreign Affairs] Senator Frances Black 'Occupied Territories' Bill 2018

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Comhlámh

January–April

[Foreign Affairs] Review of the EU Aid Volunteer Initiative

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Ciarán Cannon', 'role': 'Minister of State for the Diaspora and Overseas Development Aid (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Comhlámh

January–April

[Employment] Legislation to provide for the right to work for asylum seekers in Ireland, following on from the Supreme Court ruling on this subject in May 2017.

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Comhlámh

September–December

[Health] Fair and equitable access to effective medicines is critical to public health in Ireland and around the world.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Submission All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'A copy of the winter 2018 policy brief of the AMI group was shared by email with all TDs, Senators and MEPS'} {'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Kate O'Connell", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Lisa Chambers', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Noel Rock', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Alan Kelly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 2 more

Comhlámh

January–April

[Justice and Equality] The asylum seeking process

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Comhlámh

January–April

[Foreign Affairs] The ratification of the EU Canada Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Seán Haughey', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Darragh O'Brien", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'John Curran', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Jim O'Callaghan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Jack Chambers', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Bobby Aylward', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 5 more

Comhlámh

May–August

[Foreign Affairs] The Canada EU trade deal, titled the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Event / Reception All TDs', 'role': 'We held a public event in Dublin to which we invited all TDs for the launch of an Information pack on CETA. \nWe also sent hard and soft copy of the CETA information pack to all TDs.'}

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