ActionAid Ireland

Lobbying Organisation ActionAid Ireland

Date published 19 May, 2017

Relevant Matter Public policy or programme

Public Policy Area Taxation

Period 1 Jan, 2017 to 30 Apr, 2017

Specific Details ActionAid Ireland shared Twitter action with campaign supporters. This template called on Brian Hayes MEP to support public country by country reporting for all countries

Intended results To encourage Brian Hayes MEP to support the draft report on public country by country reporting (proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2013/34/EU) without amendments

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Olivia Lally, Campaigns and Policy Officer

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? ActionAid Ireland asked campaign supporters to tweet Brian Hayes MEP and provided a pre-composed tweet template.

Was this lobbying done on behalf of a client? No

Lobbying activity

The following activities occurred for this specific Subject Matter Area.

Email (100+)

ActionAid Ireland emailed campaign supporters to invite them to tweet Brian Hayes MEP, asking him to support public country by country reporting for all countries. The email contained a link to a pre-composed template tweet.

Social Media (51-100)

ActionAid is aware of 62 tweets directed towards Brian Hayes MEP using the pre-composed template.

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.

Brian Hayes MEP (European Parliament)