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Lobbying Tracker

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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Lobbying Returns
2580
Registered Lobbyists
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Threshold
May–August
[Housing] Matters discussed included Threshold Services, funding, and the housing crisis in Cork County
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Maurice Manning', 'role': 'Director of Services or Equivalent (Cork County Council)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
May–August
[Housing] Responding to questions from the office of Stephen Donnelly TD
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
May–August
[Housing] Discussion with Fianna Fáil researcher on housing
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Barry Cowen', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
May–August
[Housing] Labour party meeting on Housing Crisis Solutions
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': "Jan O'Sullivan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Kevin Humphreys', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Alison Gilliland', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
May–August
[Housing] Discussion on homelessness crisis and Threshold's Tenancy Protection Service
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Eoin Ó Broin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
May–August
[Housing] Meeting to discuss homelessness and Threshold services
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Lou McDonald', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Copies of Threshold's pre-budget submission sent to every member of the Oireachtas
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Submission All Oireachtas Members', 'role': "Copies of Threshold's Pre-Budget Submission were sent to every member of the Oireachtas with a cover letter. The mailing took place in early September 2017 over a number of days."}
🏦 Finance & Banking 🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Meeting with Minister to provide update Threshold policy proposals.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Aideen Hayden (Former DPO)', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Eoghan Murphy', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Bilateral Meeting between the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and the Community and Voluntary Pillar.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Hurley', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Environment, Community and Local Government)'}
🌍 Climate & Energy 🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Meeting to discuss Threshold's 'NCT for Housing' proposal
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Eoin Ó Broin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Highlighting issues in the Private Rental Sector
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Aideen Hayden (Former DPO)', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Barry Cowen', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Request for meeting
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': "Jan O'Sullivan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Request for meeting
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Pat Casey', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Good Shepherd Cork
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
January–April
[Development and Zoning] Public Procurement Threshold Directive
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': "Chris O'Leary", 'role': 'Councillor (Cork City Council)'} {'name': 'Alan Kelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Community and Local Government)'} {'name': 'Paudie Coffey', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Environment, Community and Local Government)'} {'name': 'John McCarthy', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)'} {'name': 'Bairbre Nic Aongusa', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Environment, Community and Local Government)'} {'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} + 3 more
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Vintners' Federation of Ireland
January–April
[Finance] Maintaining the current hospitality VAT Rate; Increasing the VAT Threshold from €75,000 to €110,000; Reducing the Excise level on alcohol
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Submission All TDs', 'role': 'This was actually sent to General Secretaries of the various political parties and some Independents. The Independents are listed below, but it also went to Tom Curran, FG, Sean Dorgan, FG, Dawn Doyle, Sinn Fein and Brian McDowell, Labour.'} {'name': 'Lucinda Creighton', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Michael Healy-Rae', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Michael Lowry', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Mick Wallace', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Mattie McGrath', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 2 more
🏦 Finance & Banking 🏥 Health 🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
May–August
[Housing] Brief Minister for Housing on challanges facing tenants in the private rented sector.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Colette Kelleher', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Law Society of Ireland
September–December
[Taxation] Reforms in Capital Acquisitions Tax policy and thresholds
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Michael Noonan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Linked P2P Ltd
September–December
[Budgetary matters] To support the peer to peer lending industry by allowing for an tax free threshold on earnings from lending to SMEs through peer to peer platforms. Plus allow the write off of losses on defaulting loans against tax.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Michael Noonan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Michael Noonan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🏢 Enterprise & Employment 🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Proposed national roll-out of Tenancy Protection Service
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Aideen Hayden (Former DPO)', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Bairbre Nic Aongusa', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Environment, Community and Local Government)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Seeking meeting to discuss Tenancy Protection Service
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Eileen Gleeson', 'role': 'Director of Services or Equivalent (Dublin City Council)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Pre-budget Submission concerning issues of regulation of the private rented sector, promoting affordable supply of private rented accommodation and preventing homelessness.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jim McGrath', 'role': 'Special Advisor (Department of Environment, Community and Local Government)'} {'name': 'Alan Kelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Community and Local Government)'} {'name': 'Paudie Coffey', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Environment, Community and Local Government)'} {'name': 'Ann Phelan', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Bairbre Nic Aongusa', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Environment, Community and Local Government)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking 🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Pre-budget Submission concerning issues of providing adequate funds towards housing and rent supplement supports, promoting the supply of affordable rental housing amending and amending legislation with regards to receiverships.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Michael Noonan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Mary Kenny', 'role': 'Special Advisor (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Paul Bolger', 'role': 'Special Advisor (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Simon Harris', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Brendan Howlin', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'} {'name': 'Ann Byrne', 'role': 'Special Advisor (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking 🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Measures to address homelessness, Rent Supplement Reform
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Niall McNelis', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Extend the Tenancy Protection Service (TPS)Nationwide; Introduce Rent Certainty measures; Amend Rent Supplement and HAP limits to reflect market rents; Reform the administration of Rent Supplement.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Aideen Hayden (Former DPO)', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Alan Kelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Community and Local Government)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Amend Rent Supplement limits to reflect market rents.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'Online email campaign advertised to members of the public via Threshold’s website, where members of the public emailed members of the Oireachtas.'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Extend the Tenancy Protection Service (TPS)Nationwide; Introduce Rent Certainty measures; Amend Rent Supplement and HAP limits to reflect market rents; Reform the administration of Rent Supplement.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Aideen Hayden (Former DPO)', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Letter All Oireachtas Members', 'role': "A letter with a copy of the Threshold's Dublin Tenancy Protection Service Annual Report was also sent to all members of Dublin City Council, South Dublin County Council, Fingal County Council and Dún Laoghaire- Rathdown County Council, Cork City Council, Cork County Council, Galway City Council and Galway County Council."}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Meeting to discuss extension of the Tenancy Protection Service to Galway and the commuter counties of Meath, Wicklow and Kildare; changes to the Interim Tenancy Sustainment Protocol (ITSP).
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Joan Burton', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of Social Protection)'} {'name': 'Kevin Humphreys', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Social Protection)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Outline of the potential operation and benefits of Rent Certainty measures.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Aideen Hayden (Former DPO)', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Letter All Oireachtas Members', 'role': ''} {'name': 'Jim McGrath', 'role': 'Special Advisor (Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Outline of the potential operation and benefits of Rent Certainty measures
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jimmy Deenihan', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'Fidelma Healy Eames', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
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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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