Overwatch Report

Uplift

January–April

[Environment] Uplift members emailed Government Ministers asking them to support the recommendations in the Draft Climate Action Bill

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Catherine Martin', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media)'} {'name': 'Charlie McConalogue', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': "Darragh O'Brien", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Heather Humphreys', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation)'} {'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'} + 7 more

Uplift

January–April

[Environment] Asking for legislation to be passed to allow CCTV aboard supertrawlers

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Grace O'Sullivan", 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Uplift

January–April

[Local Government] Members emailed South Dublin Councillors asking that they do not renew the Ashton Dog Pound licence

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Councillors', 'role': 'Members of Dublin South Council'} {'name': 'Teresa Walsh', 'role': 'Director of Services or Equivalent (South Dublin County Council)'} {'name': 'Danny McLoughlin', 'role': 'Chief Executive Officer (South Dublin County Council)'}

Uplift

January–April

[Education and Training] Uplift staff met Minister Foley to ask that the NCCA consider the Sex Education Submission contributed to by Uplift members to be included in the Review of Relationship and Sex Education in Ireland.

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Uplift

January–April

[Trade] Uplift members emailed members of the Climate Action Committee asking that CETA is not dropped from the committee's agenda

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Alan Farrell', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Brian Leddin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Christopher O'Sullivan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Darren O'Rourke", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Cormac Devlin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Jennifer Whitmore', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 5 more

Uplift

January–April

[Housing] Uplift members called Fianna Fáil Councillors asking them to vote for fully publicly owned houses to be built on the Oscar Trayanor Road site

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Claire O'Connor", 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Daithí De Róiste', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Daryl Barron', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Deirdre Conroy', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Deirdre Heney', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Eimear McCormack', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} + 4 more

Uplift

January–April

[Trade] Phone call with Cllr Conor McGuinness asking him to keep CETA on the Climate Action Committee Agenda

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Conor D. McGuinness', 'role': 'Councillor (Waterford City and County Council)'}

Uplift

January–April

[Trade] Phone call made to Lynn Boylan in her capacity as Senator for the Agricultural Panel asking that CETA be kept on the Climate Action Committee Agenda

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Uplift

January–April

[Marine] Uplift members asked MEPs to vote on an amendment in the European Parliament to put CCTV on Supertrawlerss

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Barry Andrews', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Billy Kelleher', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Frances Fitzgerald', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Maria Walsh', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Deirdre Clune', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Seán Kelly', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Uplift

January–April

[Local Government] Councillor asked not to renew the licence for Ashton Dog Pound

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Carly Bailey', 'role': 'Councillor (South Dublin County Council)'}

Uplift

January–April

[Trade] Asking the Council and Councillors to supporting a CETA-Free Zone motion in the South Dublin constituency

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Carly Bailey', 'role': 'Councillor (South Dublin County Council)'}

Uplift

January–April

[Marine] Asking to support the amendment to the motion in the European Parliament to put CCTV onboard supertrawlerss

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Grace O'Sullivan", 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Uplift

January–April

[Local Government] Uplift members emailed their local councillors asking councillors to pass motions that can be voted on by councils, declaring their constituencies as CETA-free zones

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All Councillors', 'role': '568 emails sent to councillors by Uplift members'}

Uplift

January–April

[Social Protection] Uplift members emailed their TDs asking that they vote for the Civil Registration (Right of Adoptees to Information) (Amendment) Bill 2021 to allow adoptees to access their birth certificate

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': '965 emails sent'}

Uplift

January–April

[Justice and Equality] Uplift members contacted their TDs to ask them to help convince the Government move at least 400 people seeking refuge from Lesvos in Greece to Ireland

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': '305 emails sent'}

Uplift

January–April

[Local Government] Asked the councillor to support a motion in the council to vote to make Kildare a CETA-free zone

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Chris Pender', 'role': 'Councillor (Kildare County Council)'}

Uplift

January–April

[Health] Uplift members contacted their TDs asking them to tell health chiefs to make sure access to maternity services is prioritised as part of exiting Level 5

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': '282 emails sent'}

Uplift

May–August

[Health] Uplift members tweeted public representatives to ask that there be a waiver on covid vaccine patents

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'An Tánaiste (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

Uplift

May–August

[Health] Uplift members sent Tweets to Minister Stephen Donnelly asking that student nurses and student midwives be paid

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Uplift

May–August

[Health] Email to Róisín Shorthall asking that she put in a Parliamentary Question about lifting Covid-19 restrictions for partners in Maternity Hospitals

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Róisín Shorthall', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Uplift

May–August

[Health] Uplift members emailed their TDs asking that they vote to lift Covid-19 restrictions on accompanying partners in Maternity Hospitals

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': '661 emails were sent by Uplift members to their TDs'}

Uplift

May–August

[Housing] Uplift members emailed their TDs asking that they vote to stop corporate investors from buying up homes in Ireland

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': 'Uplift members sent at least 1595 emails to their TDs'}

Uplift

May–August

[Housing] Emily Duffy, Deputy Director at Uplift asked Paul McAuliffe TD to vote for the Affordable Housing Bill

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Paul McAuliffe', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Uplift

May–August

[Trade] TD Brid Smith asked s Parliamentary Question on our behalf to ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the economic and sustainability impact assessment for Ireland of the EU-Mercosur Association Agreement will be published

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Uplift

May–August

[Housing] Emily Duffy, Deputy Director at Uplift asked James Lawless TD to vote for the Affordable Housing Bill

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Uplift

May–August

[Health] Siobhan O'Donoghue, Director of Uplift, sent an email to all TDs asking that they vote to end Covid-19 restrictions for accompanying partners at Maternity Hospitals

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': ''}

Uplift

May–August

[Trade] Uplift members made phone calls to the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment asking that on a trip to Brussels, he highlights the devastating effects the EU Mercosur deal will have on the Amazonian forest & people’s lives in Ireland and to commit to a publication date for the impact assessment report.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'}

Uplift

May–August

[Health] Uplift members emailed their TDs asking that they do all that they can to ensure that national policy guidelines, re. Covid-19 restrictions for accompanying partners in Maternity Hospitals, issued by the HSE are revised

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': ''}

Uplift

May–August

[Foreign Affairs] Tweet sent to European Commissioner for Financial Stability Mairead McGuinness asking her to vote for the TRIPS waiver in the EU Parliament

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Mairead McGuinness', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Uplift

May–August

[Housing] Uplift campaigner Michelle Byrne emailed Patricia Roe, Social Democrat Councillor asking her to vote against the Land Development Agency Bill

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Patricia Roe', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'}

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