Overwatch Report

Benefacts

January–April

[Public Expenditure and Reform] In response to letter of 21st December from Mr. Joe O'Brien TD, Minister of State for Community Development and Charities

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Joe O'Brien", 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Rural and Community Development)'}

Benefacts

January–April

[Public Expenditure and Reform] To ask for update concerning DRCD's plan to commission work from Pobal already done by Benefacts.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Bairbre Nic Aongusa', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Rural and Community Development)'}

Benefacts

January–April

[Public Expenditure and Reform] To advise that Benefacts' funding relationship with DPER is finishing and Benefacts would cease trading on 15th March 2022

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Orlaigh Quinn', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'} {'name': 'Martin Fraser', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'John McKeon', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Social Protection)'} {'name': 'Robert Watt', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'John Hogan', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Joseph Hackett', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} + 15 more

Benefacts

January–April

[Public Expenditure and Reform] Copy of correspondence with DPER clarifying matters that had been issued by the Department in briefings or correspondence

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Ged Nash', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Catherine Murphy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Mairéad Farrell', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Seán Canney', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'John Lahart', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Bernard Durkan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Benefacts

January–April

[Public Expenditure and Reform] To clarify some of the points raised in correspondence related to Benefacts extinction in response to queries from the Deputy

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Ged Nash', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Benefacts

January–April

[Public Expenditure and Reform] To provide materials on request in advance of a meeting of the PAC

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Ged Nash', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Catherine Murphy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Benefacts

January–April

[Public Expenditure and Reform] To provide clarification in relation to matters raised at a meeting of an Oireachtas Committee

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Jack Chambers', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Paul Morrin', 'role': 'Assistant Director General (Central Statistics Office)'} {'name': 'Mairéad Farrell', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'John McGuinness', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Joe O'Brien", 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Rural and Community Development)'}

Benefacts

January–April

[Public Expenditure and Reform] To advise the Minister that the wind up process was in progress and express the disappointment of the Board, and to invite the Minister to make a nomination to the Board of the company established to steward the legacy assets of the company.

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Benefacts

January–April

[Public Expenditure and Reform] To provide a copy of Benefacts Directors Report and Audited Financial Statements for 2021

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Letter All TDs', 'role': ''} {'name': 'Letter All Senators', 'role': ''} {'name': 'Letter All MEPs', 'role': ''} {'name': 'Paul Morrin', 'role': 'Assistant Director General (Central Statistics Office)'} {'name': 'Pádraig Dalton', 'role': 'Director General (Central Statistics Office)'} {'name': 'Brendan Gleeson', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} + 40 more

Benefacts

January–April

[Public Expenditure and Reform] Briefing about Benefacts work and potential opportunities

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Geraldine Hurley', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Social Protection)'}

Benefacts

January–April

[Public Expenditure and Reform] Seeking a meeting with senior officials in Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'David Moloney', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'}

Benefacts

January–April

[Public Expenditure and Reform] Briefing on an outline of the services Benefacts could provided to the Dept of Further and Higher Education

Public Officials Lobbied

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

Benefacts

January–April

[Public Expenditure and Reform] Briefing on Who Funds What and a request for a meeting

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Joe O'Brien", 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Rural and Community Development)'}

Benefacts

January–April

[Public Expenditure and Reform] To ask for clarification on the position of the Dept of Public Expenditure and Reform vis-à-vis future funding for Benefacts

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'} {'name': 'Ossian Smyth', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'}

Benefacts

January–April

[Public Expenditure and Reform] Invitation to launch Benefacts Charities in Ireland 2020 report

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Joe O'Brien", 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Rural and Community Development)'} {'name': 'Bairbre Nic Aongusa', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Rural and Community Development)'}

Benefacts

January–April

[Public Expenditure and Reform] Demonstration of Benefacts Analytics & Benefacts Who Funds What services

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Ossian Smyth', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'}

Benefacts

January–April

[Public Expenditure and Reform] Issued copies of Benefacts Annual Report 2020 and Case Statement document

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Paul Morrin', 'role': 'Assistant Director General (Central Statistics Office)'} {'name': 'Neil Ward', 'role': 'Acting Assistant Secretary (Department of Justice)'} {'name': 'Louise Jevens', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Justice)'} {'name': 'William Beausang', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Further and Higher Education, Innovation and Science)'} {'name': 'Colin Menton', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'} {'name': 'Declan Rigney', 'role': 'Assistant Secretaries or Equivalent Grades (The Office of the Revenue Commissioners)'} + 14 more

Benefacts

May–August

[Public Expenditure and Reform] Offering to arrange a meeting to discuss the benefit case, an outline business, governance and funding model for Benefacts beyond 2021.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Robert Watt', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'} {'name': 'Martin Fraser', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Fergal Lynch', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'} {'name': 'Pádraig Dalton', 'role': 'Director General (Central Statistics Office)'} {'name': 'Declan Rigney', 'role': 'Assistant Secretaries or Equivalent Grades (The Office of the Revenue Commissioners)'} {'name': 'Graham Doyle', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} + 10 more

Benefacts

May–August

[Public Expenditure and Reform] To seek a meeting to discuss the benefit case, an outline business, governance and funding model for Benefacts beyond 2021. Also to invite him to launch the special Charity report.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Joe O'Brien", 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Rural and Community Development)'}

Benefacts

May–August

[Public Expenditure and Reform] To discuss the benefit case, an outline business, governance and funding model for Benefacts beyond 2021.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Bairbre Nic Aongusa', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Rural and Community Development)'} {'name': 'Paul Morrin', 'role': 'Assistant Director General (Central Statistics Office)'} {'name': 'John Conlan', 'role': 'Chief Financial Officer (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'Paul Lemass', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'John Barron', 'role': 'Assistant Secretaries or Equivalent Grades (The Office of the Revenue Commissioners)'}

Benefacts

May–August

[Public Expenditure and Reform] To discuss the benefit case, an outline business, governance and funding model for Benefacts beyond 2021 and to seek a meeting of interested parties.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Elizabeth Canavan', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of the Taoiseach)'}

Benefacts

May–August

[Public Expenditure and Reform] To propose new funding arrangements for 2022.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Fiona Quinn', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'Sheenagh Rooney', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Rural and Community Development)'}

Benefacts

May–August

[Public Expenditure and Reform] To provide further briefing materials on request including copy correspondence from July 2020.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Elizabeth Canavan', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of the Taoiseach)'}

Benefacts

May–August

[Public Expenditure and Reform] To provide an update on the status of Benefacts proposals.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'John Conlan', 'role': 'Chief Financial Officer (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'Greg Dempsey', 'role': 'Deputy Secretary General (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'William Beausang', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Education and Skills)'}

Benefacts

May–August

[Public Expenditure and Reform] To update on the status of Benefacts and to encourage him to take an interest in it.

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'David Moloney', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'}

Benefacts

May–August

[Public Expenditure and Reform] To provide an outline of Benefacts data services

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Laura Magahy', 'role': 'Executive Manager (Department of Health)'}

Benefacts

May–August

[Public Expenditure and Reform] To seek an update on the status of Benefacts proposals

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Elizabeth Canavan', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of the Taoiseach)'}

Benefacts

May–August

[Public Expenditure and Reform] To provide an update as requested

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Elizabeth Canavan', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of the Taoiseach)'}

Benefacts

May–August

[Public Expenditure and Reform] To update on the Philanthropy Report project and request data

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Bairbre Nic Aongusa', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Rural and Community Development)'}

Benefacts

May–August

[Public Expenditure and Reform] To provide an update on the status of Benefacts proposals

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'John Barron', 'role': 'Assistant Secretaries or Equivalent Grades (The Office of the Revenue Commissioners)'} {'name': 'Ossian Smyth', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'}

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