UNICEF Ireland

Lobbying Organisation UNICEF Ireland

Date published 04 Sep, 2020

Relevant Matter Public policy or programme

Public Policy Area Children and Youth Affairs

Period 1 Sep, 2020 to 31 Dec, 2020

Specific Details Increased support for young people's mental health

Intended results Implementation of the Youth Mental Health Taskforce recommendations Increase in Guidance Counsellor allocation Strengthened efforts to protect children from preventable diseases, including reversing recent falls in measles immunization. Action to reduce income inequality and poverty and ensure that all children have access to the resources they need. • Take decisive action to reduce income inequality and poverty and ensure that all children have access to the resources they need. • Rapidly address the serious gapExpand family-friendly policies to improve work-family balance, especially access to high-quality, flexible and affordable early-years childcare. • Improve COVID-19 policies that support families with children and ensure budgets that support child well-being are protected entirely from austerity measures.

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Vivienne Parry

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?) No

Did you manage or direct a grassroots campaign? No

Was this lobbying done on behalf of a client? No

Lobbying activity

The following activities occurred for this specific Subject Matter Area.

Email (1)

Sent emails outlining UNICEF Recommendations

Event / Reception (1)

Launched a report outlining wellbeing indicators for children and areas in need of improvement

Social Media (21-30)

Released report findings and promoted the event

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.

Roderic O'Gorman Minister (Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth)

Kathleen Funchion TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Stephen Donnelly Minister (Department of Health)

Mary Butler Minister of State (Department of Health)

Anne Rabbitte Minister of State (Department of Health)

Ivana Bacik Senator (Seanad)

Róisín Shorthall TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Jennifer Whitmore TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Bríd Smith TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Richard Boyd Barrett TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Ossian Smyth Minister of State (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Michael McNamara TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Matt Shanahan TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Colm Brophy Minister of State for the Diaspora and Overseas Development Aid (Department of Foreign Affairs)

Colm Burke TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Matt Carthy TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Michael Collins TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

David Cullinane TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Pearse Doherty TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Norma Foley Minister (Department of Education and Skills)

John McGuinness TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Fergus O'Dowd TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Louise O'Reilly TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Duncan Smith TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)