Cycling Ireland

Lobbying Organisation Cycling Ireland

Date published 20 Jan, 2017

Relevant Matter Matters involving public funds

Public Policy Area Sports and Recreation

Period 1 Sep, 2016 to 31 Dec, 2016

Specific Details Sports Budget for 2017

Intended results Intention was to keep funding for Sport the same or better than previous years through a meeting of collective sports bodies.

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Geoff Liffey - Cycling Ireland CEO

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.

Meeting (1)

Meeting held on Nov 17th at the Aviva Stadium ahead of DTTAS launch of Sports Consultation document. The meeting was organized by the Federation of Irish Sports and included senior representatives of several of their member organisations which includes Cycling Ireland. The items covered were the challenges facing the various sports and the need to keep the funding levels at previous levels and ideally with an increase.

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.

Shane Ross Minister (Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport)