Relevant Matter
Matters involving public funds
Public Policy Area
Finance
Period
1 Sep, 2025 to 31 Dec, 2025
Specific Details
Budget 2026, calling for targeted, adequately resourced, and structurally transformative policies to address pressing social challenges including in the areas of housing, homelessness including youth homelessness, women and children subjected to domestic abuse, older people, poverty eradication, and supports to the Community and Voluntary Sector.
Intended results
Housing - resourcing of increased exit routes from homelessness; adapt a 'Housing First' approach to family homelessness; resource access to housing for women and children leaving domestic abuse refuge, increased funding on homeless prevention and tenancy support..
Youth Homelessness - resource delivery of support services and the current Youth Homelessness Strategy and commit to developing a successor strategy; fund psychosocial programmes addressing the traumatic impact of homelessness
Domestic abuse - fully resourcing legal aid representation, Fund updating schools’ curricula/educational programmes to eradicate Domestic, Sexual and
Gender-based violence (DSGBSV), delivered by specialised, trained and expert staff.
Resource delivery of systematic, mandatory training and educational programmes, by DSGBV
specialists, appropriately trained, expert staff, on DSGBV to all workers in public services,
Older people - Resource a comprehensive, all-of-government national ageing strategy; Resource suitable housing for older people; Increase resources for befriending services; Provide an energy guarantee payment for those on lower incomes; Ensure funding and develop a sustainable funding model for the statutory right to homecare; Resource accessible, suitable transport options so older people; Ensure access to appropriate food and nutrition advice for older people.
Poverty eradication - targeted support to those in energy poverty through increasess in key ancillary
benefits such as the Fuel Allowance, Household Benefits Package and Living Alone Allowance; Resource the benchmarking and indexing of the state pension planned for 2026, so that its
rate will always be at least equal to 34% of total average earnings to preserve its status as the
bedrock of income in older age; Increase core social welfare rates and benchmark them to average, weekly earnings.
Community and Voluntary Sector - full cost recovery including the funding of non-pay costs; Prioritise multi-annual funding; prevent the creation of a new tier of under-resourced public service delivery and expansion to workers beyond Section 56, 40, 39 and 10; Invest €500,000 towards training, awareness raising and supporting capacity building for
sector organisations, to support the full implementation of the UN’s Sustainable Development
Goals 6.
Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity
Sally Anne Corcoran
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.
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.
Peter Roche
TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)
Albert Dolan
TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)
Louis O'Hara
TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)
Seán Canney
TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)
Seán Kyne
Senator (Seanad)
Ollie Crowe
Senator (Seanad)
Anne Rabbitte
Senator (Seanad)