Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - IACP

Lobbying Organisation Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - IACP

Date published 18 Sep, 2020

Relevant Matter Public policy or programme

Public Policy Area Health

Period 1 May, 2020 to 31 Aug, 2020

Specific Details Introductory Virtual Meeting with the Minister of State for Mental Health and Older People

Intended results To introduce our organisation and our organisation's work to the Minister Invite the Minister to open our Annual Conference

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Lisa Molloy

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.

Virtual Meeting (1)

Agenda: •IACP School Counselling Supports Proposal: In May, Minister Butler’s party colleagues James Browne,TD invited us to submit a proposal for school counselling supports to Fianna Fáil’s party discussions for the programme for government. Unfortunately, neither proposal was picked up for inclusion in the programme for government, neither did we get feedback as to whether Fianna Fáil brought it to the coalition meetings for discussion. We’d like to ask the Minister her thoughts on this matter. Was she familiar with the proposals before we brought it to her attention in this agenda. • Invitation for Minister Butler to open the IACP Virtual Annual Conference 2020 on 17th: We’d like to invite the Minister to open our Annual Conference, the Minister will – if she chooses to accept the invitation – have the option of addressing the conference live or via a pre-recorded message that she can record in her own time. The theme of this year’s conference is Diversity and Inclusion

Email (2-5)

Expressing thanks for meeting with us and to formally invite the Minister to open our Annual Conference.

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.

Mary Butler Minister of State (Department of Health)