FASD Ireland CLG (FASD Ireland)

Lobbying Organisation FASD Ireland CLG

Date published 05 Jan, 2026

Relevant Matter Matters involving public funds

Public Policy Area Health

Period 1 Sep, 2025 to 31 Dec, 2025

Specific Details Delays with Grant Aid Agreement Funding being paid to FASD Ireland

Intended results December 2025 payment being delayed until January 2026. Intended result was the funding to be paid in December 2025.

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Tristan Casson-Rennie

Did any Designated Public Official(DPO) or former Designated Public Official(DPO) carry out lobbying activities on your behalf in relation to this return? You must include yourself, and answer Yes, if you are a current DPO or a DPO at any time in the past. (What is a Designated Public Official?) Yes

Current or Former Designated Public Official(s)

Aubrey McCarthy (Former DPO) Senator (Seanad)

Padraig Rice (Former DPO) TD (Dáil Éireann, the Lower House of the Oireachtas)

Michael Healy Rae (Former DPO) Minister (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Michael Fitzmaurice (Former DPO) TD (Dáil Éireann, the Lower House of the Oireachtas)

Sorcha Clarke (Former DPO) TD (Dáil Éireann, the Lower House of the Oireachtas)

Cathal Crowe (Former DPO) TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Did you manage or direct a grassroots campaign? No

Was this lobbying done on behalf of a client? No

Mass communications

Email All Oireachtas Members An email to all TDs asking them to raise the issue of a delay in funding payment to FASD Ireland in December 2025 which was being delayed until January 2026.

Lobbying activity

The following activities occurred for this specific Subject Matter Area.

Phone call (6-10)

Phone calls with various TDs/Senators to discuss this issue and raise PQ's when the Dail returns.

Email (11-20)

Follow up emails with with various TDs/Senators to discuss this issue.

Virtual Meeting (2-5)

Virtual Meetings with with various TDs/Senators to discuss this issue.

Designated public officials lobbied

The following DPOs were lobbied during this return period on this specific Subject Matter Area. These DPOs were involved in at least one of the Lobbying Activities listed above, but not necessarily all of them. As returns are specific to a Subject Matter Area the above Lobbying Activities may be associated with multiple returns.

Rose Conway-Walsh TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Sinéad Gibney TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Barry Ward TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Claire Kerrane TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Marie Sherlock TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Ruth Coppinger TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Erin McGreehan TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Sorca Clarke TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Pádraig Rice TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Cathal Crowe TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Roderic O'Gorman TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Jerry Buttimer Minister of State (Department of Rural and Community Development)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill Minister (Department of Health)

Peter Burke Minister (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)