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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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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
May–August
[Children and Youth Affairs] A meeting to discuss trans healthcare, incitement to hatred legislation, and LGBTQ+ community engagement as part of a delegation of representatives from LGBTQ+ organisations.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Lou McDonald', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'David Cullinane', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
May–August
[Health] Met with Minister Butler to update her on the specific mental health and healthcare needs of LGBTQ+ youth.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}
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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
May–August
[Health] Met with Minister Carroll MacNeill, along with representatives from other LGBTQ+ organisations, to discuss the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ young people, the HSE's Model of Care consultation on trans healthcare, and the needs of LGBTQ+ older people.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jennifer Carroll MacNeill', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'}
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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
May–August
[Children and Youth Affairs] Met with Deputy Heneghan to introduce Belong To's work and share information on priority topics for LGBTQ+ youth.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Barry Heneghan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
May–August
[Children and Youth Affairs] Held a meeting to discuss the need for a dedicated youth space in Dublin city centre.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'James Geoghegan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Máire Devine', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'}
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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
May–August
[Children and Youth Affairs] Sent email updating Oireachtas members on Belong To's work in the first half of 2025.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': "The email detailed Belong To's work in the first half of 2025."}
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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
May–August
[Budgetary matters] Met with Minister Chambers to discuss the need for a dedicated youth space in Dublin city centre, and to present Belong To's pre-Budget submission.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jack Chambers', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform)'}
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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
May–August
[Budgetary matters] Delivered Belong To's pre-Budget submission to Ministers ahead of Budget 2026.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Helen McEntee', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Education)'} {'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}
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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
May–August
[Children and Youth Affairs] Met with Minister Foley to raise National Inclusion Strategy implementation; funding for Family Support Services; a pilot programme for families of under-14s; and recent research.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Norma Foley', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth)'}
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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
May–August
[Justice and Equality] Hate Speech and Hate Crime
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Jim O'Callaghan", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice)'}
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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
May–August
[Justice and Equality] Hate Speech and Hate Crime
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': "Jim O'Callaghan", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice)'}
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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
January–April
[Justice and Equality] Attended House of the Oireachtas LGBTQ+ Caucus to share sector manifesto asks from the LGBTQ+ community for the next general election.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jerry Buttimer', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Fintan Warfield', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Jack Chambers', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
January–April
[Justice and Equality] Co-signatory to letter from the Coalition Against Hate Crime outlining the need to fulfil the Programme for Government commitment to introduce hate crime legislation, and revise and update existing legislation on incitement to hatred.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Simon Harris', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'Helen McEntee', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice)'} {'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
January–April
[Health] Discussed the need for healthcare services to deliver timely care for trans people, following the best-practice guidelines developed by the World Health Organisation.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'David Cullinane', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
January–April
[Health] Invitation to join an event hosted by Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI) in relation to models of trans healthcare provision.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Ivana Bacik', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Jennifer Carroll MacNeill', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Regina Doherty', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': "Roderic O'Gorman", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth)'}
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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
January–April
[Justice and Equality] Co-signatory to letter from the Coalition Against Hate Crime requesting clarification on Sinn Féin's position on the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Lou McDonald', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Lynn Boylan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Matt Carthy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Mark Ward', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Sorca Clarke', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Pa Daly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 33 more
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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
January–April
[Children and Youth Affairs] Invitation to meet to discuss the upcoming Action Plan for Youth Services.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': "Jennifer Murnane O'Connor", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
January–April
[Education and Training] Invitation to visit Belong To and to learn about the organisation's work.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jack Chambers', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media)'}
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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
January–April
[Education and Training] Invite to meet to discuss the implementation of Cineáltas: Action Plan on Bullying 2023-2027.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Aisling Dolan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}
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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
January–April
[Social Protection] Invite to meet to discuss the progress of recommendations arising from the review of the Gender Recognition Act, 2015.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Seán Sherlock', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
January–April
[Education and Training] Minister Chambers attended and spoke at the accreditation event for Belong To's LGBTQ+ Quality Mark.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jack Chambers', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Bernie McNally', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Education)'}
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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
January–April
[Health] Minister missed research launch and wrote to apologise. We wrote back offering to meet her to share the key findings with her.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}
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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
January–April
[Health] Provided followup information on healthcare services to deliver timely care for trans people, following the best-practice guidelines developed by the World Health Organisation.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'David Cullinane', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
January–April
[Justice and Equality] Attended House of the Oireachtas LGBTQ+ Caucus to share sector manifesto asks from the LGBTQ+ community for the next general election.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jerry Buttimer', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Fintan Warfield', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Jack Chambers', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Mal O'Hara", 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}
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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
May–August
[Social Protection] Wrote to request an update on the publication of research relating to gender recognition.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Heather Humphreys', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Social Protection)'} {'name': "Roderic O'Gorman", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth)'}
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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
May–August
[Justice and Equality] Letter to request an urgent meeting between LGBTI+ organisations and the Oireachtas LGBTI+ Caucus to discuss hate crime legislation.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jerry Buttimer', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}
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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
May–August
[Children and Youth Affairs] Meeting to discuss actions under the LGBTI+ National Youth Strategy 2018-2020.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Richard Bruton', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
May–August
[Health] Research briefing the 2024 'Being LGBTQI+ in Ireland' research relating to the mental health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ people in Ireland
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}
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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
May–August
[Justice and Equality] Spoke at the Belong To Pride Breafast event about the urgent need for hate crime legislation.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Simon Harris', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': "Roderic O'Gorman", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth)'}
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BeLonG To Youth Services Ltd.
May–August
[Health] Discussed the need for healthcare services to deliver timely care for trans people, following the best-practice guidelines developed by the World Health Organisation.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'}
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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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