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Who lobbies whom about what. Search Ireland's lobbying register to see who is influencing your TDs, ministers, and public officials — and on whose behalf.

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Registered Lobbyists
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FleishmanHillard, Ireland
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
January–April
[Finance] Competition within the Irish banking sector
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': "Fiona O'Connor", 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'}
🏢 Enterprise & Employment 🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
FleishmanHillard, Ireland
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
January–April
[Finance] Competition within the Irish banking sector
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Elizabeth McMunn', 'role': 'Deputy Governor (Central Bank of Ireland)'}
🏢 Enterprise & Employment 🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
FleishmanHillard, Ireland
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
January–April
[Health] Celebrating the launch of the McCabes Pharmacy rebrand in Castleknock
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jack Chambers', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform)'}
🏥 Health View on lobbying.ie →
FleishmanHillard, Ireland
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
January–April
[Finance] Irish Investor Awards
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jack Chambers', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
FleishmanHillard, Ireland
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
September–December
[Development and Zoning] Query concerning timeline for Ministerial sign off on departmental recommendation.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Brian Purcell', 'role': 'Adviser to Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'}
🌍 Climate & Energy View on lobbying.ie →
FleishmanHillard, Ireland
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
May–August
[Taxation] Campaigning for a reduction in VAT for the hospitality Sector
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'Issue invitation (End June 2024) to attend briefing from hospitality coalition (Irish Hotels Federation, Restaurant Association of Ireland, Irish Tourism Industry Confederation, Vintners Federation of Ireland, Licensed Vintners Association) on VAT reduction'} {'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'Issue release (July 3, 2024) on behalf of the hospitality coalition (Irish Hotels Federation, Restaurant Association of Ireland, Irish Tourism Industry Confederation, Vintners Federation of Ireland, Licensed Vintners Association) calling for a VAT reduction'}
🏦 Finance & Banking 🏥 Health View on lobbying.ie →
FleishmanHillard, Ireland
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
May–August
[Food] Update on programme to reduce food waste
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Ossian Smyth', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}
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FleishmanHillard, Ireland
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
September–December
[Taxation] Campaigning for a reduction in VAT for the hospitality Sector
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'Issue release (Sept 18, 2024) on behalf of the hospitality coalition (Irish Hotels Federation, Restaurant Association of Ireland, Irish Tourism Industry Confederation, Vintners Federation of Ireland, Licensed Vintners Association) calling for a VAT reduction'} {'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'Issue open letter (Sept 25, 2024) on behalf of hospitality coalition (Irish Hotels Federation, Restaurant Association of Ireland, Licensed Vintners Association) calling for VAT reduction.'} {'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'Issue open letter (Dec 16th) on behalf of hospitality coalition (Irish Hotels Federation, Restaurant Association of Ireland, Licensed Vintners Association) calling for VAT reduction.'}
🏦 Finance & Banking 🏥 Health View on lobbying.ie →
FleishmanHillard, Ireland
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
September–December
[Finance] Avant Money and intended change of structure to Irish banking branch of Bankinter
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Oliver Gilvarry', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Finance)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
FleishmanHillard, Ireland
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
September–December
[Finance] Avant Money and intended change of structure to Irish banking branch of Bankinter
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jack Chambers', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
FleishmanHillard, Ireland
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
September–December
[Finance] Avant Money and intended change of structure to Irish banking branch of Bankinter
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Neale Richmond', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
FleishmanHillard, Ireland
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
January–April
[Education and Training] The Ireland Canada University Foundation (ICUF) awards a range of scholarships to both Irish and Canadian academics whose research contributes to the academic and cultural links between Canada and Ireland. This work was supported year on year by the DFA from 2010 - 2021. After 11 years of uninterrupted DFA funding, our 2021/2022 application for ESP funding was unsuccessful. ICUF sought meetings to understand this decision.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Sarah Bardon', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science)'} {'name': 'Simon Harris', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science)'} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}
📚 Education View on lobbying.ie →
FleishmanHillard, Ireland
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
January–April
[Employment] The closure of all our Argos stores and business operations in the Republic of Ireland.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': 'Not every single deputy but each TD in the 28 constituencies nationwide where Argos have stores and operations.'} {'name': 'Email All Councillors', 'role': 'Not every single councillor but those in the 34 local authority constituencies where Argos have stores and operations.'} {'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'} {'name': 'Neale Richmond', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'} {'name': 'Orlaigh Quinn', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'} {'name': 'Chris Donoghue', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'} + 4 more
🏢 Enterprise & Employment View on lobbying.ie →
FleishmanHillard, Ireland
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
January–April
[Economic Development and Industry] Government policy towards data centres
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Chris Donoghue', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'}
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FleishmanHillard, Ireland
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
May–August
[Energy and Natural Resources] Ireland's policy on renewable energy including solar, wind, and energy storage.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Paul Kenny', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}
🌍 Climate & Energy View on lobbying.ie →
FleishmanHillard, Ireland
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
May–August
[Health] Formal opening of the hospital's new enlarged Endoscopy department
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Hazel Smyth', 'role': 'Councillor (Westmeath County Council)'}
🌍 Climate & Energy 🏥 Health View on lobbying.ie →
FleishmanHillard, Ireland
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
May–August
[Education and Training] Third level funding via Emmigrant Support Programme
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Paul Clarkson', 'role': 'Government Press Secretary (Department of the Taoiseach)'}
📚 Education View on lobbying.ie →
FleishmanHillard, Ireland
May–August
[Economic Development and Industry] Update on industrial development plans for Meath. Full address: Bracetown Co Meath (There is no established eircode yet as it is a very rural location).and
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Helen McEntee', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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FleishmanHillard, Ireland
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
September–December
[Economic Development and Industry] Data centres
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Colm Brophy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Emer Higgins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Eoin Ó Broin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Francis Noel Duffy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'John Lahart', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Mark Ward', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 14 more
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FleishmanHillard, Ireland
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
September–December
[Economic Development and Industry] Sale of Alkermes Athlone manufacturing facility
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'} {'name': 'Chris Donoghue', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'} {'name': 'Peter Burke', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Sorca Clarke', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Joe Flaherty', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Robert Troy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 44 more
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FleishmanHillard, Ireland
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
September–December
[Sports and Recreation] Investment in women's football in Donegal and Cork
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Charlie McConalogue', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Pearse Doherty', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Padráig Mac Lochlainn', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Joe McHugh', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Thomas Pringle', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Paul Canning', 'role': 'Councillor (Donegal County Council)'} + 11 more
🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
FleishmanHillard, Ireland
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
January–April
[Health] Procurement of Haemophilia medications in Ireland overseen by the Haemophilia Product Selection and Monitoring Advisory Board (HPSMAB).
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'}
🏥 Health View on lobbying.ie →
FleishmanHillard, Ireland
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
January–April
[Energy and Natural Resources] Ireland's policy on renewable energy including solar.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}
🌍 Climate & Energy View on lobbying.ie →
FleishmanHillard, Ireland
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
May–August
[Local Government] Pedestrianisation plans for Dublin City
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Claire Byrne', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'}
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FleishmanHillard, Ireland
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
May–August
[Economic Development and Industry] Government Statement on the Role of Data Centres in Ireland's Enterprise Strategy
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Matthew Lynch', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'}
🏢 Enterprise & Employment View on lobbying.ie →
FleishmanHillard, Ireland
May–August
[Local Government] Pedestrianisation plans for Dublin City
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Brendan O’Brien', 'role': 'Director of Services or Equivalent (Dublin City Council)'}
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FleishmanHillard, Ireland
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
September–December
[Economic Development and Industry] The post-Brexit UK-IRE trading environment
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Neale Richmond', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Damien English', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'}
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FleishmanHillard, Ireland
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
September–December
[Economic Development and Industry] The need for greater clarity on the status of the Eirgrid connection application process
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Paul Kenny', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Philip O’Callaghan', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of the Taoiseach)'}
🌍 Climate & Energy 🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
FleishmanHillard, Ireland
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
September–December
[Energy and Natural Resources] The Climate Action Plan and the Climate Act 2021
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Paul Kenny', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Climate Action, Communication Networks and Transport)'}
🌍 Climate & Energy View on lobbying.ie →
FleishmanHillard, Ireland
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
September–December
[Economic Development and Industry] The post-Brexit UK-IRE trading environment
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Regina Doherty', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Neale Richmond', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Seán Haughey', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Michael McDowell', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}
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Data Source
All lobbying data comes from the Regulation of Lobbying Register, maintained by the Standards in Public Office Commission under the Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015.

Lobbyists must file returns every 4 months. This tracker makes that data searchable by TD, policy domain, and subject — so you can see who is trying to influence the decisions that affect your life.
Why This Matters
Lobbying is legal and often legitimate. But when property developers lobby TDs who vote on housing policy, or when insurance companies lobby ministers setting regulation — you have a right to know. Transparency is accountability.
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