Overwatch Report

SSE plc

May–August

[Energy and Natural Resources] Consultation response on the options for the use of revenues raised from increases in carbon tax.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

SSE plc

May–August

[Energy and Natural Resources] Consultation response on Ireland's National Air Pollution Control Programme.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Richard Bruton', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

SSE plc

May–August

[Energy and Natural Resources] Consultation response on draft Marine Planning Policy Statement.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Eoghan Murphy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

SSE plc

September–December

[Energy and Natural Resources] Meeting with Noel Rock TD Chair of the Committee for Housing, Planning and Local Government in relation to the Marine Planning Development Bill.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Noel Rock', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

SSE plc

September–December

[Energy and Natural Resources] Meeting with Daragh O'Brien TD in relation to the Marine Planning and Development Management Bill

Public Officials Lobbied

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

SSE plc

September–December

[Energy and Natural Resources] Meeting with Pat Casey in relation to the Marine Planning and Development Management Bill

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Pat Casey', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

SSE plc

September–December

[Energy and Natural Resources] Attended Enterprise Ireland event on their invitation, and spoke to Tanaiste Simon Coveney on a range of matters over the course of the evening.

Public Officials Lobbied

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

SSE plc

September–December

[Energy and Natural Resources] Meeting with Eamonn Ryan TD on offshore wind in Ireland.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

SSE plc

September–December

[Energy and Natural Resources] Brexit Hearing with the Seanad Committee.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michelle Mulherin', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': "Joe O'Reilly", 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Paul Daly', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

SSE plc

September–December

[Energy and Natural Resources] Eurelectric letter in support of increased EU Climate Change targets.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Declan Kelleher', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}

SSE plc

September–December

[Energy and Natural Resources] Board dinner with SSE Board members and Mark Griffin.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Mark Griffin', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}

SSE plc

January–April

[Energy and Natural Resources] Providing evidence to Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment on the efforts required to meet Ireland's targets under the 2020 Climate and Energy Package

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Bríd Smith', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Brian Stanley', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Hildegarde Naughton', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

SSE plc

January–April

[Energy and Natural Resources] Email and letter to members of the Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment, and party spokespersons on Climate Action.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Ivana Bacik', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Michelle Mulherin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Hildegarde Naughton', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Timmy Dooley', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'James Lawless', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 2 more

SSE plc

January–April

[Energy and Natural Resources] Meeting to discuss the new Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (RESS) and Integrated Single Electricity Market (I-SEM).

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michael Manley', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}

SSE plc

January–April

[Energy and Natural Resources] Meeting to discuss SSE's activities and priorities.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Mark Griffin', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}

SSE plc

January–April

[Communications] To introduce the newly formed enet-SSE wholesale broadband partnership.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'John Halligan', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation)'}

SSE plc

May–August

[Energy and Natural Resources] Meeting to discuss offshore wind policy, including the status of Maritime Area Foreshore Amendment Bill and the Marine Spatial Plan.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Maria Graham', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Environment, Community and Local Government)'}

SSE plc

May–August

[Energy and Natural Resources] SSE's policy recommendations in order to develop the offshore wind electricity generation industry in Ireland

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michelle Mulherin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

SSE plc

May–August

[Energy and Natural Resources] Provided SSE positions on energy matters to be considered as part of the Energy Chapter for use in Brexit negotiations in discussions by EU Energy Attachés.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michael Manley', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}

SSE plc

September–December

[Energy and Natural Resources] Welcome Address by SSE Airtricity NI General Manager at SSE-sponsored NI Chamber of Commerce event attended by Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport)'}

SSE plc

September–December

[Energy and Natural Resources] Presentation of SSE’s ambitions to fully develop Arklow Bank Wind Park to the Executive and Members of Wicklow County Council at the authority's September monthly meeting.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Frank Curran', 'role': 'Chief Executive Officer (Wicklow County Council)'} {'name': 'Pat Vance', 'role': 'Councillor (Wicklow County Council)'} {'name': 'Pat Fitzgerald', 'role': 'Councillor (Wicklow County Council)'} {'name': 'Steven Matthews', 'role': 'Councillor (Wicklow County Council)'} {'name': 'Sylvester Bourke', 'role': 'Councillor (Wicklow County Council)'} {'name': 'Jennifer Whitmore', 'role': 'Councillor (Wicklow County Council)'} + 7 more

SSE plc

September–December

[Energy and Natural Resources] Consultation Response on the development of Ireland's National Energy and Climate Plan.

Public Officials Lobbied

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

SSE plc

September–December

[Energy and Natural Resources] Consultation response and consultation events on National Marine Planning Framework.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Eoghan Murphy', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government)'} {'name': 'Damien English', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)'}

SSE plc

September–December

[Energy and Natural Resources] Speech by Alan Young, SSE MD of Corporate Affairs, at Enterprise Ireland Knowledge Exchange with SSE in Glasgow on 26th November as part of a wider Irish trade mission to Scotland.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Heather Humphreys', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht)'}

SSE plc

September–December

[Energy and Natural Resources] SSE hosted a delegation of key Irish stakeholders from the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment and EirGrid, as well as Enterprise Ireland and the IDA to Wick in Northern Scotland to visit SSE’s 588MW Beatrice Offshore Windfarm project, currently being developed in the Moray Firth. The trip also provided an opportunity to demonstrate how policy in Great Britain has enabled offshore wind to develop, and how this might be achieved in Ireland.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michael Manley', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}

SSE plc

September–December

[Energy and Natural Resources] SSE hosted a delegation of representatives from Wicklow County Council and representatives of shipping and marine services companies based out of Arklow and Wicklow Town to Wick in Northern Scotland to visit SSE’s 588MW Beatrice Offshore Windfarm project, currently being developed in the Moray Firth.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Frank Curran', 'role': 'Chief Executive Officer (Wicklow County Council)'} {'name': 'Pat Vance', 'role': 'Councillor (Wicklow County Council)'} {'name': 'Gerry Walsh', 'role': 'Councillor (Wicklow County Council)'} {'name': 'John Snell', 'role': 'Councillor (Wicklow County Council)'} {'name': 'Gail Dunne', 'role': 'Councillor (Wicklow County Council)'}

SSE plc

January–April

[Energy and Natural Resources] Meeting to discuss SSE's ongoing commitment towards investment in Ireland

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Denis Naughten', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Ciarán Ó hÓbáin', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}

SSE plc

January–April

[Energy and Natural Resources] Renewable Heat Incentive Consultation

Public Officials Lobbied

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

SSE plc

January–April

[Development and Zoning] National Planning Framework Consultation

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)'}

SSE plc

January–April

[Environment] National Climate Mitigation Plan Consultation

Public Officials Lobbied

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

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