National Federation of Voluntary Service Providers Supporting People with Intellectual Disability (National Federation of Voluntary Service Providers Supporting People with Intellectual Disability)

Lobbying Organisation National Federation of Voluntary Service Providers Supporting People with Intellectual Disability

Date published 05 Jun, 2020

Relevant Matter Matters involving public funds

Public Policy Area Budgetary matters

Period 1 Jan, 2020 to 30 Apr, 2020

Specific Details Historic Cabinet Meeting on Disability (9 January 2020)

Intended results For Government to take urgent action on disability issues in line with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, UN CRPD

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Alison Harnett, Sean Abbott with the Oireachtas Disability Group

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)

john dolan (Former DPO) Senator (Seanad)

Did you manage or direct a grassroots campaign? No

Was this lobbying done on behalf of a client? No

Mass communications

Letter All TDs Press Release was published on the DFI website as part of the ODG on the day of the Cabinet Meeting on Disability calling for the Cabinet Committee on Disability to "show it is ready to get serious about the UN CRPD by establishing a Joint Oireachtas Committee on the implementation of the UN CRPD

Lobbying activity

The following activities occurred for this specific Subject Matter Area.

Letter (2-5)

Letter was sent to An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, from the ODG prior to the Cabinet Meeting on Disability on the 7th January seeking a meeting to discuss disability priorities outlined in the 'Briefing note from Disability Representative of the Oireachtas Disability Group to the Cabinet Committee on Disability'. 1 Follow up letter was sent to An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, from the ODG after the Cabinet Meeting on Disability on the 10th January.Launch of the ODG Budget asks 2020 on Tuesday 1st October - Attended by the DPOs listed below. Alison Harnett made opening remarks

Email (2-5)

2 Emails were sent to An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, on the 7th & 10th January with soft copies of the letters aforementioned. Note: All Cabinet Members were cc'd on this correspondence.

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.

Leo Varadkar TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)