Overwatch Report

Uplift

May–August

[Energy and Natural Resources] Emailed Eamon Ryan and Anthony O'Grady about Ireland withdrawing from the Energy Charter Treaty

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': "Anthony O'Grady", 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources)'}

Uplift

May–August

[Energy and Natural Resources] Emailed Eamon Ryan, Darcy Lonergan and Claire Byrne about Ireland withdrawing from the Energy Charter Treaty

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Darcy Lonergan', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Claire Byrne', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'}

Uplift

May–August

[Energy and Natural Resources] Emailed Senator Lynn Boylan asking for advice on the steps to withdraw Ireland the Energy Charter Treaty

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Uplift

September–December

[Environment] DPOs were emailed and contacted on Twitter asking for confirmation of when Ireland will be leaving the Energy Charter Treaty

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Patrick Costello', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Paul Kenny', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Brian Leddin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Catherine Martin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Francis Noel Duffy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 8 more

Galway Film Resource Centre Limited

September–December

[Arts] Section 481 Regional Film Development Uplift

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Seán Kyne', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Uplift

September–December

[Environment] Uplift members emailed TDs as well as Minister Charlie McConalogue himeself, asking that he would vote against or abstain from the vote to relicense glyphosate at the EU level and laying out our concerns regarding the health and environmental impacts of glyphosate use

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': ''} {'name': 'Charlie McConalogue', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'}

Uplift

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Emails, calls and Tweets sent to the Tánaiste and the Taoseach asking that the Permanent Mission to the UN for Ireland would call for a ceasefire in Gaza

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Fergal Mythen', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Uplift

September–December

[Community] Uplift staff were invited to present research on community responses to hate and extremism by Patrick Costello TD. All TDs and Senators were invited to attend

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': 'All TDs were emailed an invitation to attend a presentation on the research on community responses to hate and extremism.'} {'name': 'Email All Senators', 'role': 'All Senators were emailed an invitation to attend a presentation on the research on community responses to hate and extremism.'}

Uplift

September–December

[Community] Met with Senator Fintan Warfield to discuss solutions to hate and extrmeism emerging in communities and how to repsond.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Fintan Warfield', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Uplift

September–December

[Community] Emailed ministers and TDs with documents and framing resources on how to respond to the Dublin riots

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Mary Lou McDonald', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Gary Gannon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Neasa Hourigan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Uplift

September–December

[Children and Youth Affairs] TDs and Ministers were emailed asking that the Foster Care Allowance be increased in Budget 2024, as there had been no increase from 2009.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': 'Uplift members emailed their TDs asking that the Foster Care Allowance be increased in Budget 2024.'} {'name': "Roderic O'Gorman", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth)'} {'name': 'Heather Humphreys', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Social Protection)'} {'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'} {'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'}

Uplift

September–December

[Employment] Emails sent on behalf of the Irish Equity Campaign to all TDs regarding protection of the rights and careers in the heavily subsidised audio-visual industry - regarding recent downvote to the amendments to the Finance (No.2) Bill in support of the recommendations in the Budgetary Oversight Committees Report on the Section 481 Film Tax Credit

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': "324 emails sent from Uplift members on behalf of the Irish Equity campaign to secure fair payment, financial support and protection of workers' rights in the audio-visual industry."}

Uplift

September–December

[Community] Leo Varadkar was emailed an invitation to meet with Traveller leaders outside Leinster House to discuss mental health within Traveller Communities

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'}

Uplift

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Emailed DPOs asking them to raise a PQ aimed at Minister Micheál Martin to instruct Ireland's permanent mission to the UN to raise a Uniting for Peace Resolution

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Uplift

September–December

[Communications] Emailed all TDs and Senators an invitation to an information session in the AV Room of Leinster House to discuss Meta's suppression of Palestinian journalists and activists

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Senators', 'role': "All Senators were emailed to attend an information session in the AV Room of Leinster House to discuss Meta's suppression of Palestinian journalists and activists"} {'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': "All TDs were emailed to attend an information session in the AV Room of Leinster House to discuss Meta's suppression of Palestinian journalists and activists"}

Uplift

September–December

[Communications] Holly Cairns, Frances Black and Lynn Boylan were sent emails asking if they would lend their support to a briefing on the suppression of Palestinian voices in the AV room, Leinster House, by agreeing to Chair the event.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Holly Cairns', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Lynn Boylan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Frances Black', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Uplift

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] An open letter was emailed to Leo Varadkar, Micheál Martin and Eamon Ryan signed by 150 organisations calling for the government to support a humanitarian corridor in Gaza.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'}

Screen Producers Ireland

September–December

[Taxation] Extension of regional uplift of S481

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': 'Emailed all TDs / Finance Committe letter calling for extension of the regional uplift of S481'}

Uplift

January–April

[Health] Tweet Action at Minister Stephen Donnelly in advance of FF health committee meeting

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Uplift

January–April

[Communications] Arranged a briefing on social media corporations regulation and harms for TDs and senators by France Haugen

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Louise O'Reilly", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'James Lawless', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Alice-Mary Higgins', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Emer Higgins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Holly Cairns', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Ivana Bacik', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 18 more

Uplift

January–April

[Health] Asked via Twitter to share Uplift resources on lobbying politicians on Cannabis reform.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Lynn Ruane', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Luke Ming Flanagan', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Gino Kenny', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Aodhán Ó Ríordáin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Uplift

January–April

[Communications] Email to Target Action in relation to the Digital Services Act

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All MEPs', 'role': '13/01/2022 email sent by 144 uplift members\n19/01/2022 email send by 86 uplift members'}

Uplift

January–April

[Education and Training] Tweet Action to Minister Norma Foley regarding Sex Education in Schools

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Norma Foley', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Education)'}

Uplift

January–April

[Housing] called to ask information on SFs position on using vacant homes to be used for Ukrainian refugees

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Eoin Ó Broin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Uplift

January–April

[Education and Training] Twitter direct message related to the Sex Education Bill introduced by the Social Democrats

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Gary Gannon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Uplift

January–April

[Health] Actions relating to campaign on the National Maternity Hospital

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': ''} {'name': 'David Cullinane', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Holly Cairns', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Gary Gannon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Joan Collins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Róisín Shorthall', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 1 more

Uplift

January–April

[Communications] Email to Senator Malcolm Byrne re Online Media Safety Regulation

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Malcolm Byrne', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Uplift

January–April

[Communications] Email to Leo Varadkar

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'An Tánaiste (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Uplift

January–April

[Arts] Email action to Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe, Minister for Justice Helen McEntee, Minister for Public Expenditure Michael McGrath Minister Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media Catherine Martin asking them to waive the SEO fees from being re-introduced"

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Helen McEntee', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice)'} {'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'} {'name': 'Catherine Martin', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media)'}

Galway Film Resource Centre Limited

May–August

[Arts] Section 481 Regional Film Development Uplift

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Catherine Martin', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media)'} {'name': 'Katherine Licken', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht)'} {'name': 'Conor Falvey', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht)'} {'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Derek Moran', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Charlie McConalogue', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 10 more

Lobbying Tracker

Most Lobbied TDs