Uplift

Lobbying Organisation Uplift

Date published 21 Sep, 2017

Relevant Matter Zoning or development

Public Policy Area Housing

Period 1 May, 2017 to 31 Aug, 2017

Specific Details We directed members to contact Eoghan Murphy and ask him to stop the eviction of St Helen's Court residents by their vulture fund landlords.

Intended results We intend to stop the eviction of residents of St Helen's Court, some of whom have rented their homes for over 15 years and have nowhere else to go.

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Siobhan O'Donoghue

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? Could you take two minutes today to send Eoghan Murphy a tweet? There are templates you can use - or you can write your own.

Was this lobbying done on behalf of a client? No

Lobbying activity

The following activities occurred for this specific Subject Matter Area.

Social Media (100+)

Here are some of the tweets members were asked to send: - .@MurphyEoghan why consult on Rebuilding Ireland’s failure, and then stay silent on mass evictions by #vulturefunds? #selloff - Almost 5K people stand with the residents of St. Helen’s court. Will you @MurphyEoghan? #vulturefunds #selloff - Don’t let #vulturefunds evict residents of St. Helen’s Court. #selloff will result in more homeless people unless you act @MurphyEoghan - .MurphyEoghan knows ‘Rebuilding Ireland’ isn’t working. Start by ending economic evictions. Stop homelessness at its source. #vulturefunds #selloff - Keep the St. Helen’s court Residents in their homes. @MurphyEoghan, you have the power to do this. #selloff #vulturefunds - Because Fine Gael allowed a #selloff to #vulturefunds people in St. Helen’s Court may lose their homes @MurphyEoghan

Social Media (2-5)

We also tweeted at Eoghan Murphy ourselves. Here are the details of those tweets: A huge amount of families are facing evictions by greedy, vulture fund landlords. Tell @MurphyEoghan to intervene: https://twitter.com/UpliftIRL/status/893148879276957700 Since last night 1,700+ ppl have signed the petition calling on @MurphyEoghan to stop this eviction #vulturefunds https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/stop-the-st-helen-s-court-evicition … https://twitter.com/UpliftIRL/status/893393780145082368

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.

Eoghan Murphy TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)