Overwatch Report

Christian Aid Ireland

September–December

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

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Christian Aid Ireland

January–April

[Foreign Affairs] Occupied Territories Bill

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Christian Aid Ireland

January–April

[Environment] Represented Stop Climate Choas at Fianna Fail Ard Fheis

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Fiona O'Loughlin", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Timmy Dooley', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Dara Calleary', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Billy Kelleher', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 8 more

Christian Aid Ireland

January–April

[EU Affairs] Letter sent in relation to the European Peace Facility

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Alice-Mary Higgins', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Thomas Pringle', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Maureen O'Sullivan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Brendan Smith', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Lower House of the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Niall Collins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 34 more

Christian Aid Ireland

January–April

[Environment] Ireland's climate targets

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Richard Bruton', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'}

Christian Aid Ireland

May–August

[Foreign Affairs] Sustainable Development Goals High Level Political Forum

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Katherine Zappone', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'} {'name': 'Sean Canney', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Brian Carroll', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}

Christian Aid Ireland

May–August

[Foreign Affairs] Attended event in the Dail on Cerrejon Mine

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Maureen O'Sullivan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Frances Black', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Seán Crowe', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Christian Aid Ireland

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Meetings with Adalah a Christian Aid partner

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Maureen O'Sullivan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Niall Collins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Frances Black', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Christian Aid Ireland

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Meetings with Christian Aid partner Sisma Muher

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Niall Collins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Catherine Noone', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': "Maureen O'Sullivan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Seán Crowe', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Alice-Mary Higgins', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Tony McLoughlin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Christian Aid Ireland

September–December

[Environment] Presentation to the Committee on Climate Action on COP25

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Alice-Mary Higgins', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Jack Chambers', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Marcella Corcoran Kennedy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'David Cullinane', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Pat Deering', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 15 more

Christian Aid Ireland

September–December

[Environment] Meeting with Minister at COP 25

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Brian Carroll', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Richard Bruton', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}

Christian Aid Ireland

September–December

[Environment] Meeting with elected representatives at COP25

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Alice-Mary Higgins', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Mick Wallace', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Christian Aid Ireland

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Contact in relation to Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Maureen O'Sullivan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Niall Collins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Frances Black', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Christian Aid Ireland

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Launch of National Action Plan on Women Peace and Security

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Christian Aid Ireland

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Round table with Frances Fitzgerald

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Frances Fitzgerald', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Christian Aid Ireland

January–April

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

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Darragh O'Brien", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Victor Boyhan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': "Marie-Louise O'Donnell", 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Timmy Dooley', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} + 2 more

Christian Aid Ireland

January–April

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

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Christian Aid Ireland

January–April

[Finance] Discuss the impact of Ireland’s tax code on developing countries

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Stephen Lynam', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'John Hogan', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Finance)'}

Christian Aid Ireland

January–April

[Finance] The impact of Ireland’s tax code on developing countries

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Katherine Zappone', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'}

Christian Aid Ireland

January–April

[Foreign Affairs] Colombian Peace Process

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Maureen O'Sullivan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Darragh O'Brien", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Brendan Smith', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Seán Crowe', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Catherine Noone', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': "Fiona O'Loughlin", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Christian Aid Ireland

January–April

[Foreign Affairs] Murder of Brazilian city councillor Marielle Franco

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'There was an email sent asking parlimentarians to raise this issue with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Simon Coveney TD, and with the Brazilian Embassy to Ireland as a matter of some urgency, seeking assurances regarding the institution of an independent, transparent and internationally verified process of investigation into this crime. We further urged them to press Minister for State Joe McHugh TD - who was then on a state visit to Brazil - to raise this issue with the Brazilian government.'} {'name': 'Joe McHugh', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht)'} {'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Christian Aid Ireland

January–April

[Environment] Ireland's ambition in relation to Climate change

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Christian Aid Ireland

January–April

[EU Affairs] Ireland's ambition in relation to climate change

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Seán Kelly', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Mairead McGuinness', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Nessa Childers', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Christian Aid Ireland

January–April

[Finance] The impact of Ireland’s tax code on developing countries

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Joan Burton', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Christian Aid Ireland

January–April

[Finance] The impact of Irish tax laws on developing economies

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Christian Aid Ireland

January–April

[Trade] Business and Human Rights

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Christian Aid Ireland

January–April

[Foreign Affairs] Israel and occupied Palestinian territory

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'Invite to a film screening and talk by our partner PalVision in January'} {'name': "Maureen O'Sullivan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Darragh O'Brien", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Brendan Smith', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Christian Aid Ireland

May–August

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

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Frances Black', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Niall Collins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Ian Marshall', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Christian Aid Ireland

May–August

[Foreign Affairs] Meeting with new FF spokesperson for foreign affairs

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Christian Aid Ireland

May–August

[Taxation] Christian Aid Witness at Committee on Finance, Joint Expenditure and Public Reform

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Peter Burke', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Joan Burton', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'John Deasy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Pearse Doherty', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'John McGuinness', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 5 more

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