Natural Capital Ireland

Lobbying Organisation Natural Capital Ireland

Date published 21 Sep, 2022

Relevant Matter Public policy or programme

Public Policy Area Environment

Period 1 May, 2022 to 31 Aug, 2022

Specific Details Posts tagging Minister of State for the Department of Heritage Malcolm Noonan, Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien, Senator Pippa Hackett of the Department of Agriculture and Taoiseach Micheál Martin in promotion of the launch of the National Biodiversity Conference

Intended results Promotion of the National Biodiversity Conference Promotion of the Business for Biodiversity Platform

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Fiona Smith

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.

Social Media (6-10)

Facebook and Twitter

Email (11-20)

NCI contractors Fiona Smith, Emer Ni Dhuill & Conor Kretsch spoke to Minister of State for Heritage Malcolm Noonan’s advisor Hannah Hamilton in person and by phone about the National Biodiversity Conference, run by the Department of Housing, Local Government & Heritage, and facilitated by NCI, which took place Jun 8-9, regarding conference organisational matters on a number of occasions in May/June. NCI had tendered to run this event and had been successful.

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.

Malcolm Noonan Minister of State (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

Pippa Hackett Super Junior Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)

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

Micheál Martin Taoiseach (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Hannah Hamilton Special Adviser (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)