Overwatch Report

Cork Simon Community

January–April

[Housing] Highlighting the current situation around housing and homelessness in Cork.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Seamus McGrath', 'role': 'Councillor (Cork County Council)'}

Cork Simon Community

January–April

[Health] Public Health Alcohol Bill - a local communities perspective on proposals.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Frances Black', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Cork Simon Community

January–April

[Housing] Department of Housing, Planning, Community & Local Government's Repair and Lease Scheme

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Bob Jordan', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)'}

Cork Simon Community

January–April

[Housing] Information & statistices relating to the housing and homeless crisis in Cork

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Mick Barry', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'John Brassil', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Pat Buckley', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Jerry Buttimer', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Michael Collins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Colm Burke', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} + 58 more

Cork Simon Community

May–August

[Health] Follow up on Oireachtas Committee meeting with briefing note highlighting the need to: speed up Social housing delivery; prioritise homeless people for social housing; hold a referendum on a right to housing in the Constitution; fill vacant mental health posts, extend Housing First, funding for health services for people experiencing homelessness..

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Colm Burke', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Cork Simon Community

May–August

[Housing] Invitation to launch Cork Simon Community's Annual Report for 2016

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Cork Simon Community

May–August

[Housing] Invite to Coffee Morning at Leinster House

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Jerry Buttimer', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Colm Burke', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)'} {'name': 'Michael Creed', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Jim Daly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Brendan Griffin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 47 more

Cork Simon Community

May–August

[Housing] Email communication relating to a neighbourhood issue around housing and anti-social behaviour.

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Cork Simon Community

September–December

[Health] Public Health (Alcohol) Bill

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Cork Simon Community

May–August

[Housing] Update on the extent of the housing and homeless crisis in Cork.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Lil O’ Donnell', 'role': 'Councillor (Cork City Council)'} {'name': "Aaron O'Sullivan", 'role': 'Councillor (Cork City Council)'} {'name': 'Fiona Ryan', 'role': 'Councillor (Cork City Council)'} {'name': 'Fergal Dennehy', 'role': 'Councillor (Cork City Council)'} {'name': 'John Sheehan', 'role': 'Councillor (Cork City Council)'} {'name': "Kenneth Noel O'Flynn", 'role': 'Councillor (Cork City Council)'} + 25 more

Cork Simon Community

May–August

[Housing] Neighbourhood issues in Waterford relating to housing and anti-social behaviour.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Cork Simon Community

January–April

[Housing] Highlighting the nature and extent of the housing and homeless crisis, and the short, medium and long-term solutions needed to address the crisis.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Mick Barry', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'John Brassil', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Pat Buckley', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Michael Collins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Colm Burke', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 21 more

Cork Simon Community

January–April

[Housing] Addressing the Housing and Homeless Crisis

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Defence)'} {'name': 'Dara Murphy', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Kathleen Lynch', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Seán Sherlock', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'Jimmy Deenihan', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of the Taoiseach)'}

Cork Simon Community

January–April

[Housing] Addressing the hosuing and homeless crisis over the next four years using a Housing First approach.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Valerie O’Sullivan', 'role': 'Director of Services or Equivalent (Cork City Council)'}

Cork Simon Community

January–April

[Housing] The need to put housing and homelessness at the very top of the agenda in the new Dáil.

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Cork Simon Community

January–April

[Housing] Urgency required around addressing the housing and homeless crisis.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Dara Murphy', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'Mick Barry', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 62 more

Cork Simon Community

May–August

[Housing] Homelessness in Cork, the effectiveness of Housing First approach, ways of securing additional housing for homeless people.

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Cork Simon Community

May–August

[Housing] Homelessness in Cork, the effectiveness of Housing First approach, ways of securing additional housing for homeless people.

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Cork Simon Community

May–August

[Housing] Minister officially launched Cork Simon Annual Report for 2015. Report highlights the extent of homelessness in Cork and identifies several possible solutions.

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Cork Simon Community

May–August

[Housing] Meeting with Cork City CEO and her officials as part of a delegation from the Cork Homeless Network to discuss our shared interest in ending long term homelessness in Cork.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Ann Doherty', 'role': 'Chief Executive Officer (Cork City Council)'}

Cork Simon Community

May–August

[Housing] Recieved telephone call from Minister's Advisor seeking information about Cork Simon's housing First programme.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Bob Jordan', 'role': 'Special Advisor (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)'}

Cork Simon Community

May–August

[Housing] Letter of congratulations to Minister for Housing, Planning & Local Government on his appointment and empasising the urgeny in addressing the housing & homeloess crisis.

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Cork Simon Community

May–August

[Housing] Letters of congratulations to newly elected Senaotrs, highlighting the extent of the housing and homeless crisis in the Southwest and stressing the urgency required in addressing the crisis.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Colm Burke', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': "Denis O'Donovan", 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Jerry Buttimer', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Mark Daly', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Paul Coghlan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Tim Lombard', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Cork Simon Community

September–December

[Health] Requesting support for Public Health Alcohol Bill

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)'} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Tim Lombard', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Jerry Buttimer', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Cork Simon Community

September–December

[Housing] Meeting organised by the Cork Homeless Network to discuss resolving homelessness in Cork

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Cork Simon Community

September–December

[Health] Discussed Public Health Alcohol Bill

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Colette Kelleher', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Cork Simon Community

September–December

[Education and Training] Invite to Minister to present certificates to Cork Simon clients who had successfully completed education programmes

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'John Halligan', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation)'}

Cork Simon Community

September–December

[Housing] Highlighting the extent of the housing and homeless crisis

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Defence)'} {'name': 'Mick Nugent', 'role': 'Councillor (Cork City Council)'} {'name': 'Mick Finn', 'role': 'Councillor (Cork City Council)'}

Cork Simon Community

September–December

[Housing] Raise concerns around policy on housing and homelessness

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Seán Sherlock', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Cork Simon Community

September–December

[Housing] Raise concerns around policy on housing and homelessness.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Chris O'Leary", 'role': 'Councillor (Cork City Council)'}

Lobbying Tracker

Most Lobbied TDs