Kathleen O'Meara Public Affairs Consultant

Lobbying Organisation Kathleen O'Meara Public Affairs Consultant

Date published 16 Jan, 2025

Relevant Matter Matters involving public funds

Public Policy Area Transport

Period 1 Sep, 2024 to 31 Dec, 2024

Specific Details Lobbying by a group of CIE pensioners for the Minister for Transport to require the Board of CIE to increase their pension

Intended results That the Minister for Transport, as the single shareholder in CIE, would communicate to the Board of CIE that they would sanction an increase in the pension of a specific group of pensioners i.e. members of the 1951 Superannuation Fund

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Kathleen O'Meara

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?) Yes

Current or Former Designated Public Official(s)

Kathleen O'Meara (Former DPO) Senator (Seanad)

Did you manage or direct a grassroots campaign? No

Was this lobbying done on behalf of a client? Yes

Client(s)

Client 1

Company name CIÉ Salaried Pensioners Association

CRO number (if applicable)

Company address Gardiner Street, Dublin 1.

Main business or activity

Company website

Contact email address ciealpensioners@gmail.com

Contact phone number 086 2771177

Contact address

Lobbying activity

The following activities occurred for this specific Subject Matter Area.

Phone call (6-10)

Phone calls were made to members of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport asking them to invite the CIE Pensioners Group to present to the Committee on the issue of their pension and the lack of an increase since 2008.

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.

Duncan Smith TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Martin Kenny TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Michael Lowry TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Paul McAuliffe TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)

Dónall Geoghegan Chief of Staff (Department of the Taoiseach)