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The Wheel
[Community] Secretary General Kevin McCarthy addressed the board of The Wheel and was briefed on issues relating to the community and voluntary sector
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John Gallagher
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
[Community] Promiotion of policy proposals of The Wheel for development of the community & voluntary, charitable and social enterprise sector
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The Wheel
[Banking and Financial Institutions] The Wheel lobbied for action to reduce the cost of insurance premiums for community, voluntary and charitable organisations
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The Wheel
[Community] The Wheel met with Mark Canavan, Research and policy officer for Fianna Fail, representing Michael McGrath TD, to advise of policy needed to support a thriving community and voluntary sector
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The Wheel
[Community] The Wheel met with Donall Geoghegan, Advisor to Ministers Katherine Zappone and Denis Naughtan, to discuss policy supportive of Community and Voluntary sector
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The Wheel
[Community] The Wheel, as a member of the Social Enterprise Task Force, met with Assistant Secretary William Parnell, Department of Rural and Community Development to discuss the content of the department's emerging research report on Social Enterprise
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The Wheel
[Banking and Financial Institutions] The Wheel, as a member of the Insurance Reform Alliance, was a member of a delegation that briefed the Oireachtas Committee on Business, Enterprise and Innovation
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The Wheel
[Community] The Wheel met with Brendan Howlin, leader of the Labour Party, to discuss policies supportive of a thriving community, voluntary and charitable sector.
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The Wheel
[Community] The Wheel wrote to William Parnell, Assistant Secretary, Department of Rural and Community Development, to request a meeting to discuss developments relating to the emerging social enterprise policy, welcoming the policy and with a view to ensuring that the proposed new social enterprise policy complements the work of the existing proven and effective Community & Voluntary sector
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John Gallagher
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
[Community] Promotion of the policies of the Wheel relative to its work on behalf of the charity, community&voluntary sector
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The Wheel
[Community] The Wheel met Eamon Ryan, Leader of the Green Party to provide a briefing on the issues facing the Community and Voluntary sector and the policy change needed to address them
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The Wheel
[Community] The Wheel met with Kevin McCarthy, Secretary General of the Department of Rural and Community Development to brief the Department on the importance of ensuring that the forthcoming departmental strategy for social enterprise supports all community, voluntary and charitable organisations that make a contribution to the cost of their activity through "earning income", and that the strategy is coherent with the Department's forthcoming Strategy to Support the Community and Voluntary Sec
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The Wheel
[Community] The Wheel, as a member of the Community and Voluntary Pillar delegation, met with the Secretary General and Assistant Secretary General of the Department of Rural and Community Development to provide feedback on the Department's Draft Strategy for Social Enterprise
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The Wheel
[Community] The Wheel hosted Brendan Howlin, leader of the Labour Party, at a special discussion forum on the party's policies for the community and voluntary sector
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The Wheel
[Community] The regulatory and reporting "compliance load" and the costs of compliance are becoming unsustainable for many charities. The Wheel called on Paschal Donohoe, Minister for Finance, at the National Economic Dialogue to address the "compliance load", and the unsustainable costs of compliance now being borne by charities, and to introduce a requirement for statutory funders to make a proportional contribution to the overheads of organisations they fund, in Budget 2019
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The Wheel
[Community] The Wheel met Minister Sean Kyne at the launch of the Government's Rural Economic Development Plan in Westport to reinforce the importance of the Department's forthcoming policy on local and community development for rural development in Ireland, and the role played by community and voluntary organisations in supporting thriving rural life.
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The Wheel
[Community] Ireland's community and voluntary organisations and social enterprises could benefit to a far greater extent from European funds. The Wheel met Liadh Ni Riada, MEP to brief her on policy change necessary if Ireland's Community and Voluntary sector is to beneftit to the maximum from future rounds of European funding through programmes such as Horizon, Erasmus etc.
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The Wheel
[Community] The Wheel briefed Department of Rural and Community Development Assistant Secretary Bairbre Nic Aongusa on the developmental agenda facing the Community and Voluntary Sector at The Wheel's Annual Conference 2018
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The Wheel
[Economic Development and Industry] The cost of insurance premiums and settlements is unsustainable for Ireland's charities. The Wheel, as a member of the Alliance for Insurance Reform, has participated in the preparation and submission of briefing papers to Minister Michael D'Arcy, Department of Finance, requesting that 10 key policy changes be made to the state's current regulatory regime for insurance.
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The Wheel
[Community] It is important that emerging social enterprise policy complements and is coherent with wider policy for the community and voluntary sector. The Wheel met with William Parnell, Assistant Secretary General of the Department of Rural and Community Development to discuss a submission The Wheel made and provide feedback on the Department's Draft Strategy for Social Enterprise
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The Wheel
[Education and Training] It is important that the training and education requirements of community and voluntary sector employers and employees are adequately provided for through the National Training Fund. To ensure this, The Wheel has been in contact with William Beausang, Assistant Secretary, Department of Education, leading the current review of the National Training Fund.
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IRD Duhallow
[Community] IRD Duhallow partook in The Wheel's lobbying campaign for stronger charities and communities with the purpose of the campaign to highlight issues and challenges facing our sector as a whole including insecure funding and the rising cost of compliance and reporting.
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John Gallagher
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
[Community] To highlight the policies of the Wheel on the broad areas of charity, community and voluntary sector and social enterrpise areas
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The Wheel
[Education and Training] We provided a briefing on the training and education needs of community and voluntary organisations for the Department of Education
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The Wheel
[Budgetary matters] The Wheel met with Minister Paschal Donoghoe as a member of the Community and Voluntary Pillar delegation at the annual Pre-Budget meeting with the Minister for Finance
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The Wheel
[EU Affairs] The Wheel met with Minister Helen McEntee to brief her on the supports required if Ireland's Community and Voluntary Sector is to maximise its participation in European programmes, and maximise the extent to which the sector can benefit from European funding programmes in particular
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The Wheel
[Community] The Wheel hosted Mary Lou McDonald, Leader of Sinn Fein, at a members meeting
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The Wheel
[Community] The Wheel hosted a pre-budget press-conference following which we circulated our pre-budget statement to all members of the Oireachtas
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The Wheel
[EU Affairs] The Wheel met with Liadh Ní Riada at the Hustings we hosted for candidates in the Presidential Election, during which the developmental needs of the community and voluntary sector were discussed
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The Wheel
[Community] The Wheel met with members of the Civil Engagement Group of Senators to brief them on community and voluntary sector issues
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