Overwatch Report

Christian Aid Ireland

May–August

[Environment] Attended launch of Project 2040 on 20th June

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Denis Naughten', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Shane Ross', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport)'} {'name': 'Michael Creed', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'}

Christian Aid Ireland

May–August

[Environment] Launch of CAN Europe Report ranking EU States ambition on 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

May–August

[Finance] Tax Justice Network Event in Buswells Hotel

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': "Email inviting them to the event on 26th June is Buswell's Hotel"} {'name': 'Pearse Doherty', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Christian Aid Ireland

May–August

[Environment] CAN Europe event at Buswells Hotel in realtion to ambition on climate change

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'Inviting them to event'} {'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Grace O'Sullivan", 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Bríd Smith', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Timmy Dooley', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Christian Aid Ireland

May–August

[Foreign Affairs] Christian Aid presentation to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affiars, Trade and Defense 21st June

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Seán Barrett', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Niall Collins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Maureen O'Sullivan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Seán Crowe', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Noel Grealish', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Tony McLoughlin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 5 more

Christian Aid Ireland

May–August

[Foreign Affairs] Providing briefing in advance of the JCFATD meeting with Minister Coveney on 31st May

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Christian Aid Ireland

May–August

[Finance] Support of TD Joan Burton Tax Bill in May 2018

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Christian Aid Ireland

May–August

[Environment] Signing of joint letter to the Ministers and opposition party leaders on the Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Denis Naughten', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Jim D'Arcy", 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Mary Lou McDonald', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Brendan Howlin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 3 more

Christian Aid Ireland

May–August

[Foreign Affairs] Contacting the Senators in relation to a workshop around the Womens Caucus in September 2018

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Christian Aid Ireland

September–December

[Environment] Letter to the Joint Committee on Climate Action on the Cerrejon coal mine in Colombia.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'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': 'Pat Deering', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Timmy Dooley', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 16 more

Christian Aid Ireland

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Attended public meeting with Minister for Foreign Affairs in relation to Irish Aid White Paper

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Christian Aid Ireland

September–December

[Finance] Providing breifing to parlimentarians on the Ireland-Ghana tax treaty

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Richard Boyd Barrett', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Paul Murphy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Pearse Doherty', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Maureen O'Sullivan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 12 more

Christian Aid Ireland

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Communicating with Senators on the Occupied Territories Bill

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Diarmuid Wilson', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Keith Swanick', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': "Ned O'Sullivan", 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': "Jennifer Murnane O'Connor", 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Terry Leyden', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Lorraine Clifford-Lee', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} + 4 more

Christian Aid Ireland

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Letter to Minister in relation to situation in Brazil

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Christian Aid Ireland

September–December

[Environment] Meeting wih the Minister at COP24

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Christian Aid Ireland

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Breifing with parliamentarians on the political situation in Brazil

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Richard Boyd Barrett', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Róisín Shorthall', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Seán Crowe', '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)'} + 2 more

Christian Aid Ireland

September–December

[Environment] Tweets at the Minister and Taoiseach in relation to Ireland's efforts on tackling climate change

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Christian Aid Ireland

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] annual bilateral meeting

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Ruairí de Búrca', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Christian Aid Ireland

September–December

[Environment] Meeting with MEP at COP24

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Lynn Boylan', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Christian Aid Ireland

January–April

[Taxation] Country by Country proposals being discussed at European parliament

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Brian Hayes', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Christian Aid Ireland

January–April

[Taxation] follow up on issues raised at Tax Justice cenference held by Dept of an Taoiseach

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Eamonn O'Dea", 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (The Office of the Revenue Commissioners)'}

Christian Aid Ireland

January–April

[Taxation] issues of tax justice and Ireland's role as possible facilitator of mass tax avoidance

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Christian Aid Ireland

January–April

[Taxation] issues of tax justice as they relate to Ireland's role internationally

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Brendan Howlin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Christian Aid Ireland

January–April

[EU Affairs] the emissions trading scheme (ETS) voted on by the European Parliament

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Christian Aid Ireland

May–August

[EU Affairs] Contacted in relation to the ‘Effort Sharing’ Regulation, or the ‘Climate Action Regulation implementing the Paris Agreement’, in the ENVI committee in the European Parliament on 30 May

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Nessa Childers', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Luke "Ming" Flanagan', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Lynn Boylan', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Brian Crowley', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Seán Kelly', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Mairead McGuinness', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Christian Aid Ireland

May–August

[Environment] Met with TD's as part of SCC coalition on 13 June 2017 in realtion to the National Mitigation Plan

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Christian Aid Ireland

May–August

[Foreign Affairs] Visit of Ronit Sela, from our Israeli Partner ACRI, to Dublin on 27 June 2017.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Maureen O'Sullivan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Brendan Smith', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Frank Feighan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Christian Aid Ireland

May–August

[Foreign Affairs] Organising a joint UK and Ireland parliamentary delegation trip to Colombia with our partner organisation ABColombia

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Catherine Noone', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': "Fiona O'Loughlin", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Christian Aid Ireland

May–August

[Foreign Affairs] To discuss possibilities for a cross party trip to I-oPt with Trócaire

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Christian Aid Ireland

May–August

[Foreign Affairs] Met with Minister for State after his appointment, with Irish Aid and other Irish NGOs

Public Officials Lobbied

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

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