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Age Action

September–December

[Finance] Local Property Tax

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Gary Tobin', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Finance)'}

Age Action

September–December

[EU Affairs] Inclusion of older people in EU Development policy

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Brian Hayes', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Matt Carthy', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Mairead McGuinness', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Age Action

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Convention on the Rights of Older People

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Matt Carthy', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Helen McEntee', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Colm Brophy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Jack Chambers', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Clare Daly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 24 more

Age Action

September–December

[Transport] Car insurance

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'John McGuinness', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Peter Burke', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Michael W. D'Arcy", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Pearse Doherty', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Paul Murphy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 5 more

Age Action

September–December

[Community] Older people in rural Ireland

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Ciaran Cannon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Peadar Tóibín', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Maura Hopkins', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Danny Healy-Rae', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Éamon Ó Cuív', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Michael Collins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 5 more

Age Action

September–December

[Social Protection] Access to employment schemes

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Social Protection)'}

Age Action

September–December

[Budgetary matters] Budget 2017

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'John Curran', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Maria Bailey', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'John Brady', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Joe Carey', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Gino Kenny', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Joan Collins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 20 more

Age Action

September–December

[Social Protection] State Pension

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Alice-Mary Higgins', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Age Action

September–December

[Social Protection] Transition Pension

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'John Brady', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Denise Mitchell', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Age Action

September–December

[Social Protection] Meeting to discuss Sinn Féin's policy on older people

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Aengus Ó Snodaigh', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Age Action

September–December

[Budgetary matters] Email containing details of Age Action's priorities for Budget 2016

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Katherine Zappone', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Age Action

September–December

[Budgetary matters] Meeting with Ministers Michael Noonan and Brendan Howlin as part of the Community and Voluntary Pillar.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michael Noonan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Brendan Howlin', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'}

Age Action

September–December

[Budgetary matters] Meeting to discuss Age Action's priorities for Budget 2016

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Kathleen Lynch', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}

Age Action

September–December

[Budgetary matters] Meeting to discuss Age Action's priorities for Budget 2016

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Age Action

September–December

[Budgetary matters] Meeting to discuss Age Action's priorities for Budget 2016

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Billy Kelleher', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Age Action

September–December

[Budgetary matters] Brief informal discussion with the deputy around Age Action's priorities for Budget 2016

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Age Action

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Email seeking assistance in arranging a meeting with the human rights sub-committee of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality to discuss the need for a Convention on the Rights of Older People

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Katherine Zappone', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Ivana Bacik', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Age Action

September–December

[Budgetary matters] Meeting to discuss Age Action's priorities for Budget 2016

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Age Action

September–December

[Justice and Equality] Meeting to discuss draft legislation on financial elder abuse

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Age Action

September–December

[EU Affairs] Emailed briefing note on EU development policy to MEPs

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Marian Harkin', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Matt Carthy', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Mairead McGuinness', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Brian Crowley', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Seán Kelly', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Liadh Ní Riada', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} + 5 more

Age Action

September–December

[Foreign Affairs] Meeting with Joint Sub-Committee on Human Rights relative to Justice and Equality Matters on the need for a UN Convention on the Rights of Older People.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Anne Ferris', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Finian McGrath', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Katherine Zappone', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Ivana Bacik', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': "Fergus O'Dowd", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Age Action

September–December

[Employment] Meeting with Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality regarding the Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2014

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'David Stanton', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Anne Ferris', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Mary M. White', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Gabrielle McFadden', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Alan Farrell', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Finian McGrath', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Age Action

September–December

[Employment] Letters to members of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality regarding mandatory retirement

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Niall Collins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Alan Farrell', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Seán Kenny', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Pádraig MacLochlainn', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Gabrielle McFadden', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Finian McGrath', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 8 more

Age Action

September–December

[Trade] Letter to the Minister for Health regarding the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership treaty

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'}

Age Action

September–December

[Employment] Letter to the Minister for Business and Employment regarding implementation of specific recommendations in the National Positive Ageing Strategy

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Ged Nash', 'role': 'Super Junior Minister (Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation)'}

Age Action

September–December

[Health] Meeting to discuss issues affecting older people and the National Positive Ageing Strategy

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Mary Mitchell O'Connor", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Age Action

September–December

[Social Protection] Meeting to discuss Fianna Fáil policy on older people

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Age Action

September–December

[Social Protection] Meeting to discuss Renua policy on older people

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Lucinda Creighton', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Age Action

September–December

[Public Expenditure and Reform] Meeting with Minister Brendan Howlin as part of the Community and Voluntary Pillar.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Brendan Howlin', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'}

Age Action

September–December

[Health] Need for implementation of the National Positive Ageing Strategy raised at Department of Health Stakeholders Conference

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Kathleen Lynch', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}

Lobbying Tracker

Most Lobbied TDs