Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC)

Lobbying Organisation Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC)

Date published 19 Sep, 2025

Relevant Matter Legislation

Public Policy Area Justice and Equality

Period 1 May, 2025 to 31 Aug, 2025

Specific Details Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024

Intended results To appear before the Oireachtas Committee on Children and Equality in the context of Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Eilis Barry and Christopher Bowes

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)

Letter sent by email on 24 June 2025.

Informal communication (2-5)

Engagement via text with assistant to Sinéad Gibney TD (on 25 June 2025) who raised our request to appear before the Committee with Sinéad Gibney TD and Aidan Farrelly TD. This resulted in a brief conversation with Deputy Gibney about our request in person on 30 June 2025 at the launch of FLAC's annual report.

Phone call (1)

Phone call about our request to appear before the Committee with assistant to Claire Kerrane TD.

Email (1)

Email about our request to appear before the Committee with assistant to Claire Kerrane TD.

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.

Kiera Keogh TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Sinéad Gibney TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Aidan Farrelly TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Claire Kerrane TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)