Ireland's Association for Adventure Tourism

Lobbying Organisation Ireland's Association for Adventure Tourism

Date published 21 Jan, 2021

Relevant Matter Matters involving public funds

Public Policy Area Tourism

Period 1 Sep, 2020 to 31 Dec, 2020

Specific Details Communication with a number of public representatives on matters relating to continuity funding for the Activity Sector (arising from the Covid-19 crisis)

Intended results Awareness of the lack of funding for the activity sector Assurance that the issue is being addressed e.g. via CRSS or other continuity funding

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Brendan Kenny

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? Yes

What is the directive you gave to the grassroots campaigners? For IAAT members to email their local and national representatives with our cohesive messaging about the lack of financial support

Was this lobbying done on behalf of a client? No

Lobbying activity

The following activities occurred for this specific Subject Matter Area.

Social Media (100+)

IAAT and our members conducted a social media campaign (primarily through Twitter) to raise the profile of the issues at hand (continuity funding)

Virtual Meeting (2-5)

Had meetings with: - Senator Pauline O'Reilly (general meeting on all issues related to sector) - Minister Catherine Martin - Minister Damien English (2)

Email (21-30)

Emails were on the lack of continuity funding being made available to the activity sector.

Submission (1)

Pre-budget submission sent through to Dept Finance in October.

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.

Catherine Martin Minister (Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media)

Paschal Donohoe Minister (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)

Damien English Minister of State (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)

Pauline O'Reilly Senator (Seanad)

Michael McGrath Minister (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)

Leo Varadkar An Tánaiste (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Micheál Martin An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)

Stephen Donnelly Minister (Department of Health)