Ennis Chamber of Commerce

Lobbying Organisation Ennis Chamber of Commerce

Date published 24 Jan, 2022

Relevant Matter Public policy or programme

Public Policy Area Budgetary matters

Period 1 Sep, 2021 to 31 Dec, 2021

Specific Details Clare County Council Budget 2022

Intended results Lobbied against commercial rates increase included in Clare County Council Budget 2022

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Darragh McAllister President Ennis Chamber and Margaret O'Brien CEO Ennis Chamber on behalf of Ennis Chamber member businesses

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? Yes

What is the directive you gave to the grassroots campaigners? requested that our members emailed their locally elected councillors to ask them to object to commercial rates increase (Clare County Council Budget 2022)

Was this lobbying done on behalf of a client? No

Mass communications

Email All Councillors Ennis Chamber contacted locally elected councillors representing Ennis Municipal District via phone and email and requested its members countywide to contact their locally elected representatives asking them to object to proposed commercial rates increase as outlined in Clare County Council Draft Budget 2022

Lobbying activity

The following activities occurred for this specific Subject Matter Area.

Email (11-20)

Emailed and telephoned local elected councillors (Ennis Municipal District) to request they object to commercial rates increase by voting no to passing Clare County Council Budget 2022

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.

Clare Colleran Molloy Councillor (Clare County Council)

Pat Daly Councillor (Clare County Council)

Johnny Flynn Councillor (Clare County Council)

Mary Howard Councillor (Clare County Council)

Paul Murphy Councillor (Clare County Council)

Mark Nestor Councillor (Clare County Council)

Ann Norton Councillor (Clare County Council)

Alan O'Callaghan Councillor (Clare County Council)

P.J. Ryan Councillor (Clare County Council)

Ian Lynch Councillor (Clare County Council)

Pat Hayes Councillor (Clare County Council)

Joe Cooney Councillor (Clare County Council)

Shane Talty Councillor (Clare County Council)

Cillian Murphy Councillor (Clare County Council)

Liam Grant Councillor (Clare County Council)