Jim O'Callaghan

Attendance by TDs, Senior Decision and Policy Makers at the SAFE Ireland Summit 2016.

Sought support for increase in core funding for the community and voluntary sector in Budget 2017::Implementation of recommendations of IMPACT's 'Caring - At What Cost?' report::Request to raise the issue at FIanna Fail parliamentary party meeting

To increase awareness and support for the need for film, TV and digital content production studios/infrastructure in Dublin City Centre. To advocate for zoning of 20 of the 84 acres available on the Poolbeg West SDZ for ‘film and television production industries’, which in…

Support from the Irish Government at the UN Human Rights Council for a new Convention on the Rights of Older People.

To raise awareness of the shape of Ireland's personal tax system and to advocate for its future reform

To alert members of the select committee to Amnesty International's concerns and recommendations on the sex work provisions of the Bill before Dáil committee stage

To educate parliamentarians about the links between alcohol and cancer and learn from Scottish experience::To discuss importance of legislation, such as the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill, in reducing the rate of cancer in Ireland

LRC report implemented

To secure action from the Irish Governement at an EU level relating to demolition and destruction of EU funded aid infrastructure in Occupied Palestine.

The introduction of a regularisation scheme as a policy solution

Adoption of three proposed amendments regarding decriminalisation of outdoor workers, clarification of brothel-keeping law and a 2-year review.

The timely enactment of the Criminal Justice (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 which reforms the law relating to sexual relationships for people with intellectual disabilities in Ireland

To have the Bill expedited.

In this we assert that the protection of the natural environment should be at the core of all decision-making, as it is the primary source of both our wellbeing and our wealth. We propose the widening of the tax base to remove taxes on labour and instead tax environmental…

To secure support of public representatives for a continuation of DIT Students' Union's funding from the Student Contribution Charge paid by DIT students while maintaining its independence from DIT management