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Dublin Rape Crisis Centre

September–December

[Justice and Equality] Raise awareness of the impact of counselling notes on victim-survivors of sexual violence engaging with the criminal justice system

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Deliveroo (Roofoods Ltd)

September–December

[Economic Development and Industry] To improve the awareness of policymakers of Deliveroo’s operations in Ireland and seek an update on the transposition of the EU Platform Work Directive.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Paul Fox (Former DPO)', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'Paudie Coffey (Former DPO)', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'John Lahart', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Mary Seery Kearney', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Ollie Crowe', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Pat Casey', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} + 1 more

RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland)

September–December

[Health] Raising public awareness of brain health and improving sport inclusion for people impacted by brain conditions.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Jennifer Carroll MacNeill', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Defence)'} {'name': 'Simon Harris', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Neale Richmond', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Ossian Smyth', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'} + 9 more

Darragh Murphy

January–April

[Development and Zoning] With regard to a recent announcement of a design competion for social housing for a site in Sligo Docklands, to query whether the Dept of housing planning and local government were aware of a previous more comprehensive Masterplan put forward for Sligo Docklands from 2017

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Kieran O'Donnell", 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'Kevin Dillon', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'Ciara Shaughnessy', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'}

Darragh Murphy

January–April

[Economic Development and Industry] With regard to a recent announcement of a design competion for social housing for a site in Sligo Docklands, to query whether Sligo Borough Council were aware of previous Masterplan proposals for the wider Sligo Docklands area from 2017

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Martin Lydon', 'role': 'CEO (Sligo County Council)'} {'name': 'Dorothy Clarke', 'role': 'Director of Services or Equivalent (Sligo County Council)'}

Diabetes Ireland

January–April

[Health] To seek sustained investment in supporting people living with diabetes and promote a more strategic approach to addressing longterm improvements making huge government cost savings, increase Oireachtas members awareness about the scale and severity of diabetes and its impact on society and to work together to seek ongoing government commitment to a long-term innovative strategic framework for managing diabetes with committed annual funding.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'Invitation sent to all TDs and Senators to attend the Cross Party Parliamentary Diabetes Committee meeting on 30 January 2023 to meet the new HSE Clinical Lead for Diabetes.'} {'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Cormac Devlin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Charlie McConalogue', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

RPP SRL

on behalf of Yes (client not named)

January–April

[Health] Educational initiative and questionaire on gene therapy and related awareness

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Deirdre Clune', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Billy Kelleher', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Community Law & Mediation

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Meeting to discuss the services offered by Community Law & Mediation and to make the TD aware of the mediation service (including the funding position of the service) and the Environmental justice clinic.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'John Lyons', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Denise Mitchell', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Aodhán Ó Ríordáin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Third Age

January–April

[Health] (1) The call to establish an Independent Commissioner for Ageing and Older People and (2) the need for a campaign to raise awareness and combat ageism.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'James Lawless', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Insurance Ireland

January–April

[Banking and Financial Institutions] On behalf of members, to raise awareness of issues pertinent to the Irish insurance industry

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Matthew Lynch', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'} {'name': 'Grant Sweetnam', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'} {'name': 'Stephen Foley', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'} {'name': "Fiona O'Connor", 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform)'} {'name': 'Jennifer Carroll MacNeill', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Finance)'} + 7 more

Insurance Ireland

January–April

[Banking and Financial Institutions] On behalf of members, to raise awareness of issues pertinent to the Irish motor insurance industry

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Keith Walsh', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Transport)'} {'name': 'Jack Chambers', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Transport)'}

Epilepsy Ireland

January–April

[Health] Informing members of the Oireachtas about Epilepsy Ireland's International Epilepsy Day awareness campaign.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'All Oireachtas members were contacted with diary notice, specific information on prevalence of epilepsy within their constituencies and a request to share a message of support on the day.'}

Irish Exporters Association

January–April

[Education and Training] Speaking on the need to increase awareness of sustainability courses

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'William Beausang', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Further and Higher Education, Innovation and Science)'}

Age & Opportunity

January–April

[Justice and Equality] (1) The call to establish an Independent Commissioner for Ageing and Older People and (2) the need for a campaign to raise awareness and combat ageism

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Aengus Ó Snodaigh', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Aindrias Moynihan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Alan Dillon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Alan Farrell', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Alan Kelly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Anne Rabbitte', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 222 more

Instinctif Partners Public Affairs Ireland

on behalf of Yes (client not named)

January–April

[Health] Notification of MFI lessons learned from Covid-19 Report in the context of upcoming Government inquiry into Covid-19, in order to raise awareness of medicines shortages in Ireland and the sustainable supply of medicines in Ireland

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Robert Watt', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Muiris O’Connor', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'}

National Adult Literacy Agency

January–April

[Education and Training] Expanding literacy ambassador programme into other prison education units and delivering literacy awareness to prison staff.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Simon Harris', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science)'}

Monkstown Abbey Road Residents Association

January–April

[Development and Zoning] Raising awareness about impact of planning decisions by An Bord Pleanála and of Draft Planning and Development Bill on housing provision and sustainable community development

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Barry Ward', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Tom Clonan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Jennifer Carroll MacNeill', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Richard Boyd Barrett', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Ossian Smyth', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Maurice Dockrell', 'role': 'Councillor (Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council)'} + 14 more

Childminding Ireland

January–April

[Children and Youth Affairs] To raise awareness of current challenges for childminders and families using childminding services as well as the need for Childminding Ireland their representative body

Public Officials Lobbied

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

The Alzheimer Society of Ireland

January–April

[Health] To support awareness of dementia by supporting The ASI annual Tea Day

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': ''}

Allianz plc

January–April

[Banking and Financial Institutions] A letter from Allianz Ireland CEO Sean McGrath to local TDs in the Bray, Co. Wicklow area to inform them of an event being held in partnership with Women's Aid in their local constituency to raise awareness about domestic abuse in Ireland.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Jennifer Carroll MacNeill', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Steven Matthews', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'John Brady', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Jennifer Whitmore', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Ivana Bacik', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Irish Kidney Association

January–April

[Health] Relevant matter subject not available. Contacted Minister for Healths Office with invitation to the launch of Organ Donor Awareness Week

Public Officials Lobbied

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

MABS Support Company Limited by Guarantee

January–April

[Social Protection] o raise awareness of the 12 month extension of the Abhaile funding and promote a need for the permanent continuation of the DMA Project.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Willie O'Dea", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Brian Leddin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Kieran O'Donnell", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Maurice Quinlivan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Niall Collins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Richard O'Donoghue", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 9 more

MABS Support Company Limited by Guarantee

January–April

[Social Protection] Objective: to raise awareness of the 12 month extension of the Abhaile funding and promote a need for the permanent continuation of the DMA Project.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Willie O'Dea", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Brian Leddin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Kieran O'Donnell", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Maurice Quinlivan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Niall Collins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Richard O'Donoghue", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 9 more

Aughinish Alumina Limited

January–April

[EU Affairs] To provide an update and raise further awareness of the risk to employment at Aughinish as result of the Russian invasion of the Ukraine

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Declan Hughes', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'} {'name': "Patrick O'Donovan", 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'} {'name': 'Niall Collins', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science)'} {'name': 'Billy Kelleher', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Family Carers Ireland

January–April

[Community] ADHD awareness swords

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Fair Seas Ireland

January–April

[Environment] Tagging DPOs on Twitter - raising awareness levels of MPA process in Ireland and Europe

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Malcolm Noonan', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': "Grace O'Sullivan", 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Charlie McConalogue', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'}

Rare Diseases Ireland

January–April

[Health] Get Rare Aware - asking politicians to press government to deliver on Prog for government promise: Supporting the medical genetics service in Our Lady’s Children Hospital, Crumlin

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'Invitation inviting them to join online webinars to learn about the challenges and delays getting a rare disease genetic diagnosis at CHI Crumlin.'} {'name': 'Email All MEPs', 'role': 'Invitation inviting them to join online webinars to learn about the challenges and delays getting a rare disease genetic diagnosis at CHI Crumlin.'} {'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'Email from grassroots asking Oireachtas members to take action & contact minister to ask about programme for government promise to support genetic testing services at CHI, Crumlin which are critical for diagnosis of many rare diseases.'} {'name': 'Aengus Ó Snodaigh', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Aindrias Moynihan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Alan Dillon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 240 more

Bloomfield Health Services

January–April

[Health] Raise awareness of the need for Huntington's Disease and Bloomfield potential role in providing same. Inclusion of Bloomfield in the services covered by the PSRP scheme.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'James Lawless', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'John Lahart', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'}

Immigrant Council of Ireland

January–April

[Local Government] Increase diversity in Irish politics, ethnic and gender diversity. Sought Department support to raise awareness about migrant political rights

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Janet Horner', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'}

Dyspraxia Association of Ireland

January–April

[Health] To raise awareness of the lack of assessment and follow on support services for children and youth with Dyspraxia.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Ivana Bacik', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Marie Sherlock', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

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