SOA Research Company Limited by Guarantee

Lobbying Organisation SOA Research Company Limited by Guarantee

Date published 18 May, 2020

Relevant Matter Public policy or programme

Public Policy Area Housing

Period 1 Jan, 2020 to 30 Apr, 2020

Specific Details To inform housing spokespeople of multi-stakeholder Community-led Housing research project now underway

Intended results To inform spokespeople that the project exists. To briefly explain what Community-led housing is. To issue an open invitation for follow-up discussion to further inform. To incorporate Community-led housing and development in public policy.

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Tom O'Donnell on behalf of SOA Research.

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.

Email (2-5)

We wrote to housing spokespeople of parties across Dáil Éireann (contents of the email were the same in each case). Labour had no designated Housing Spokesperson so we addressed an email to info@labour.ie with no recipient named (hence no DPO from Labour is named below)

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.

Damien English TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Eoin Ó Broin TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Darragh O'Brien TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Francis Noel Duffy TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)