Crosscare (Crosscare)

Lobbying Organisation Crosscare

Date published 13 Jan, 2021

Relevant Matter Public policy or programme

Public Policy Area Housing

Period 1 Sep, 2020 to 31 Dec, 2020

Specific Details In collaboration with Focus Ireland, Simon Community, DePaul, Crosscare wrote to Minister Darragh O' Brien re funding for homeless services.

Intended results Collaboratively, we were seeking more favourable funding arrangement for the homeless services run by all 4 organisations.

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Conor Hickey and the CEOs of the 3 other organisations mentioned above

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.

Letter (2-5)

2 letters dated 23 Oct. 2020 and 23 Dec. 2020 were compiled by the 4 CEOs and emailed to the Minister's office by Conor Hickey of Crosscare

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.

Darragh O'Brien Minister (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)