Engineers Ireland

Lobbying Organisation Engineers Ireland

Date published 19 Jan, 2017

Relevant Matter Public policy or programme

Public Policy Area Environment

Period 1 Sep, 2016 to 31 Dec, 2016

Specific Details Contribution to the following: "A Draft Strategy towards Climate Change Action Plans for the Dublin Local Authorities."

Intended results That the views of our member engineers on this important topic would be considered by the four Dublin local Authorities. Engineers Ireland commends the pro-active approach by the DLAs to work together to develop individual yet collaborative climate change action plans, one for each local authority area.

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Caroline Spillane, Director General

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.

Submission (1)

An email/letter went in on 17 October 2016 which included a short submission and a link to our State of Ireland report 2016. Whilst the four CEOs of the four Dublin local authorities are listed below, (as it was a joint call for submissions) the actual submission had to go to a designated email: submissions@codema.ie

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.

Owen Keegan CEO (Dublin City Council)

Paul Reid CEO (Fingal County Council)

Philomena Poole CEO (Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council)

Danny McLoughlin Chief Executive Officer (South Dublin County Council)