Migrant Rights Centre Ireland

Lobbying Organisation Migrant Rights Centre Ireland

Date published 20 May, 2021

Relevant Matter Public policy or programme

Public Policy Area Justice and Equality

Period 1 Jan, 2021 to 30 Apr, 2021

Specific Details Regularisation of undocumented people

Intended results Introduction of a broad and inclusive scheme to regularise undocumented workers, children and young people

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Neil Bruton

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? 1. To create a tweet tagging the Minister for Justice thanking her for her work on the regulariation scheme and encouraging her to make it as broad and inclusive a possible. 2. We asked organisations and individuals to contact the Minister directly by letter or email to inform her of their support for a broad and inclusive scheme.

Was this lobbying done on behalf of a client? No

Lobbying activity

The following activities occurred for this specific Subject Matter Area.

Meeting (1)

We had one zoom meeting with the designated officials Minister McEntee, Minister Browne, Oonagh Buckley and Patrick Cluskey (listed below) on 21st April to discuss the proposed regularisation scheme and to provide our feedback and recommendations on it.

Email (1)

We emailed the designated officials Minister McEntee, Minister Browne, Oonagh Buckley and Patrick Cluskey (listed below) with a summary of our recommendations from the meeting above.

Social Media (2-5)

We sent a number of tweets (Feb 22, March 17 &April 23) in which we tagged Minister McEntee and An Taoiseach and mentioned Minister Browne .

Letter (1)

Our JFU campaign group sent one letter directly to the Minister thanking her for her commitment and calling for a broad and inclusive regularisation.

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.

Helen McEntee Minister (Department of Justice)

James Browne Minister of State (Department of Justice)

Micheál Martin An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)

Oonagh Buckley Deputy Secretary General (Department of Justice and Equality)

Patrick Cluskey Special Adviser (Department of Justice)