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Abbvie Limited

May–August

[Health] To invite Minister to STEM launch event

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Joe McHugh', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Education and Skills)'}

Abbvie Limited

May–August

[Health] To discuss access to medicines and the European Intellectual Property protection environment

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Seán Kelly', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Abbvie Limited

May–August

[Health] Parkinsons Disease funding in Ireland and medicines reimbursement

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Lisa Chambers', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Alan Kelly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Noel Grealish', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Michelle Mulherin', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Fiona Bonfield', 'role': 'Councillor (Tipperary County Council)'} {'name': 'Rose Conway-Walsh', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Abbvie Limited

September–December

[Health] Meetings to discuss access to medicines

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Abbvie Limited

September–December

[Health] Briefing note on access to medicines

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'John Brassil', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'James Browne', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Michael Harty', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Abbvie Limited

September–December

[Health] Discussion on Budget 2019

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Abbvie Limited

September–December

[Health] To discuss HCV elimination

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Lorraine Clifford-Lee', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Paul McAuliffe', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'}

Abbvie Limited

September–December

[Health] To invite representatives to attend AbbVie STEM events

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Joe McHugh', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Education and Skills)'} {'name': 'Dara Calleary', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Annie May Reape', 'role': 'Councillor (Mayo County Council)'} {'name': 'Jarlath Munnelly', 'role': 'Councillor (Mayo County Council)'} {'name': 'Michelle Mulherin', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Rose Conway-Walsh', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}

Abbvie Limited

September–December

[Health] Neurology policy in Ireland

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Fiona Bonfield', 'role': 'Councillor (Tipperary County Council)'}

Abbvie Limited

September–December

[Health] Access to medicines and the European Intellectual Property (IP) protection environment

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Seán Kelly', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Mairead McGuinness', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Maria Walsh', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Billy Kelleher', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Ciarán Cuffe', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': "Grace O'Sullivan", 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} + 5 more

Abbvie Limited

September–December

[Health] Presentation during IBEC regional meeting

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Pat the Cope Gallagher', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Charlie McConalogue', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Abbvie Limited

September–December

[Health] Invitation to attend AbbVie presentation

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Kate O'Connell", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Abbvie Limited

January–April

[Health] To highlight the delays in patients getting access to new innovative medicines and ask for a national policy on access to medicines that will improve Ireland's ranking relative to other European countries

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': "Louise O'Reilly", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Colm Burke', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Billy Kelleher', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Niall Collins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'James Lawless', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 5 more

Abbvie Limited

January–April

[Economic Development and Industry] To present Abbvies concerns to a proposed change in intellectual property ( IP) legislation that would introduce a Special Protection Certificate (SPC) Waiver

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Mairead McGuinness', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Marian Harkin', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Abbvie Limited

May–August

[Health] To highlight delays in access to an innovative new medicine for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia for patients in Ireland that is available in other European countries

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Colm Brophy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Abbvie Limited

May–August

[Economic Development and Industry] To present the EY-DKM report on the importance of a robust IP framework to the Pharmaceutical Industry along with the Trade Associations submission to the public consultation on the EU SPC Waiver proposal

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Mairead McGuinness', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}

Abbvie Limited

May–August

[Health] Provided Industry briefing on delay in access to new medicines in Ireland

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Jim Daly', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}

Abbvie Limited

January–April

[Health] To discuss the operation of the IPHA agreement and policy on access to new innovative medicines

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Tony McLoughlin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Marc MacSharry', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Jim O Callaghan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Eamon Scanlon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Abbvie Limited

January–April

[Health] To update on the operations of the IPHA agreement and policy on access to new medicine and deliver our position on the new Biosimilar Policy

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Abbvie Limited

May–August

[Health] To update on the operation of the IPHA agreement and policy on access to medicines and deliver our position on Biosimilar Policy. To brief on the work Abbvie are doing in promoting the uptake of STEM subjects

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'James Lawless', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Colm Brophy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'John Halligan', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation)'} {'name': 'David Stanton', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Abbvie Limited

September–December

[Health] To brief TD's on how Ireland is falling behind other countries in Europe on speed of access to new medicines

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Martin Kenny', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Tony McLoughlin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'John Brassil', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Eamon Scanlon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Marc MacSharry', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Billy Kelleher', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 1 more

Abbvie Limited

May–August

[Health] To communicate the value to the State of securing a successor supply agreement with the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association (IPHA)

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Seán Sherlock', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Tony McLoughlin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'David Stanton', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Justice and Equality)'} {'name': 'Enda Kenny', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Stephen Lynam', 'role': 'Special Advisor (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'}

Abbvie Limited

September–December

[Health] To discuss the Fianna Fail Private Members Bill to amend the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2015

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Billy Kelleher', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}

Abbvie Limited

September–December

[Health] Briefing re health sciences research in Ireland and the prominent global role Ireland can play,

Public Officials Lobbied

{'name': 'Richard Bruton', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Education and Skills)'} {'name': 'Dermot Mulligan', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation)'}

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Most Lobbied TDs