Pádraig O'Sullivan

That incoming TDs would be familiar with the organisation and aware of the needs of young LGBTQ+ people in Ireland.

We aim to have provision for AADI services added to Budget 2025. Specifically we are looking for support to fund the Animal Assisted Education Programme.

communication & understand for what providers go through

Raise profile of organisation that is in receipt of core funding from government bodies

Raise awareness of the work Wellsprings achieves, the core funders and gap in services that Wellsprings responds to.

Seeking information on available funding opportunities to Wellsprings services. To share Wellsprings data and consider how to add to research in the area::Inform of identified gap in services and proposal for increase in funding for staffing to remedy the service deficit.

Securing a National Autism Strategy rooted in human rights and equality::Ensuring the Committee was aware of our concerns in relation to the CAMHS prescribing audit::Ensuring Committee members were aware of our concerns about proposed 'Special Education Centres'

Informal visit to Jigsaw Cork to learn about services provided to young people

Reopening of the early learning and child care sector in Ireland

Retention of the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme for settings until the end of 2021

That the response to the COVID-19 pandemic considered the need of those parenting alone and included the provision of additional incomes supports, employment and childcare supports, tenancy protections and rental supports, and measures to address energy poverty, food poverty…

increased resources for young people and youth work in this constituency and nationally.

To provide a Seas Suas written submission to Special Committee on Covid-19 Response on the government's response to the childcare Covid-19 crisis

That TDs would support a pathway to residency for young undocumented people