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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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Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed
September–December
[Social Protection] Key General Election issues for people who are unemployed, distanced from the labour market, and people working on these issues, calling on all political parties and people standing in the forthcoming General Election to ensure adequate levels of income; improve welfare to work supports; provide quality training and education; enhance labour market programmes; accessible and decent jobs; supportive employment services; and inclusive technological change.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Tom Brabazon', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Shay Brennan', 'role': 'Councillor (Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council)'} {'name': 'Michael Cahill', 'role': 'Councillor (Kerry County Council)'} {'name': 'Peter Cleere', 'role': 'Councillor (Kilkenny County Council)'} {'name': 'Bridie Collins', 'role': 'Councillor (Limerick City and County Council)'} {'name': 'John Connolly', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} + 81 more
Harry McGee
September–December
[Sports and Recreation] Ensure that Ranelagh Gaels, one of the fastest growing GAA clubs in Ireland, has adequate access to green areas to train and play games.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Defence)'} {'name': "Jim O'Callaghan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
The Union of Retail ,Bar and Administrative Workers
September–December
[Employment] Transposition of the EU Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages (AMW) - Respect At Work Campaign
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Vincent P Martin', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Angela Feeney', 'role': 'Councillor (Kildare County Council)'} {'name': 'Aidan Farrelly', 'role': 'Councillor (Kildare County Council)'} {'name': 'James Lawless', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Transport)'} {'name': 'Bernard Durkan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Réada Cronin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 4 more
Down Syndrome Ireland
September–December
[Education and Training] Fidelma Brady and Nichola Aylward met with Minister Hildegarde Naughton to discuss special classes for children with Down syndrome and to discuss the provision of adequate numbers of mild and moderate special classes not just ASD units in primary and post primary schools.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Hildegarde Naughton', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Education)'}
Clare Youth Service
September–December
[Children and Youth Affairs] Highlighting issues impacting on young people and seeking support for adequate and secure funding, provision of effective mental health services, equal pay for young people. improved public transport in rural areas, action on insurance costs for young drivers and the provision of safe and secure accommodation for young people.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Cathal Crowe', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Timmy Dooley', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Joe Cooney', 'role': 'Councillor (Clare County Council)'} {'name': 'Rita McInerney', 'role': 'Councillor (Clare County Council)'} {'name': 'Róisín Garvey', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Donna McGettigan', 'role': 'Councillor (Clare County Council)'} + 1 more
SIPTU - Services Industrial Professional Trade Union
September–December
[Employment] Meetings with Ministers Burke and Higgins - AMWD - Adequate Minimum Wage Directive
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Emer Higgins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Peter Burke', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
Doras Luimní
September–December
[Children and Youth Affairs] Email regarding lack of adequate services & supports in emergency IPA accommodation
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'David Delaney', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth)'}
Irish Congress of Trade Unions
September–December
[Employment] LEEF High Level Group and the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Peter Burke', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'}
The National Advocacy Service for People with Disabilities
September–December
[Social Protection] Emailed a number of DPOs to inform them of the issues facing the National Advocacy Service for People with Disabilities (NAS) and to ask for support with our call on Government to include a reference to committing to adequately resourcing NAS to ensure equal access to independent advocacy in the Programme for Government.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Frank Feighan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "John Paul O'Shea", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Jerry Buttimer', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Grace Boland', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Seamus McGrath', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Tom Brabazon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 33 more
County Carlow Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Tourism CLG
September–December
[Economic Development and Industry] Securing funding for large infrastructure programmes (such as the URDF funded Carlow Town Centre Development) is a complex and time-consuming process – as is drawing down this funding. We need to ensure that our Local Authority is adequately resourced to secure whatever additional funding may be available.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': "Jennifer Murnane O'Connor", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Adrienne Wallace', 'role': 'Councillor (Carlow County Council)'}
St Patrick's Mental Health Services
September–December
[Health] CEO co-signed a letter sent to the Taoiseach in September by Mental Health Reform calling for the prioritisation of adequate funding for mental health services in the Budget.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Simon Harris', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'}
National Forum of Family Resource Centres CLG
January–April
[Budgetary matters] •Recognition of the Family Resource Centre programme as a distinct national programme within the wider C&V sector. •The Departmental policy oversight of the Family Resource Centre National Programme. •Scope for sustainability and development of the Programme. •Level of adequate and sustainable core funding.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': "Roderic O'Gorman", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth)'}
Irish Congress of Trade Unions
January–April
[Employment] Transposition of the recent EU Directive entitled the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'}
Irish Congress of Trade Unions
January–April
[Employment] Transposition of the Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages as well as on the report of the High-Level Group on Collective Bargaining
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'} {'name': 'Neale Richmond', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'}
Uplift
January–April
[Health] Uplift members sent emails to their TDs in Tipperary, Limerick and Clare telling them to resource hospitals in Mid-West adequately
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': 'Uplift members sent emails to their TDs in Tipperary, Limerick and Clare telling them to resource hospitals in Mid-West adequately'}
Codling Wind Park Limited
January–April
[Energy and Natural Resources] Information briefings regarding the Codling Wind Park project and matters related to the climate emergency and national energy policy as these relate to the development of offshore wind energy, Codling Wind Park's Fishers Fund and Charter, and the adequate resourcing of bodies including An Bord Pleanala and NPWS.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Derek Mitchell', 'role': 'Councillor (Wicklow County Council)'} {'name': "Dermot O'Brien", 'role': 'Councillor (Wicklow County Council)'} {'name': 'Gail Dunne', 'role': 'Councillor (Wicklow County Council)'} {'name': 'Lourda Scott', 'role': 'Councillor (Wicklow County Council)'} {'name': 'Mary Kavanagh', 'role': 'Councillor (Wicklow County Council)'} {'name': 'Stephen Stokes', 'role': 'Councillor (Wicklow County Council)'} + 11 more
Dublin Rape Crisis Centre
January–April
[Public Expenditure and Reform] Brief on matters of concern in particular on the issue of access to adequate, sustainable funding and supports for 'Section 56' agencies
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jennifer Carroll MacNeill', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Finance)'}
Amnesty International Ireland
January–April
[Justice and Equality] Joint open letter to Taoiseach re inadequate enforcement of EU GDPR by Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner of Irish-based tech companies complicit in spreading online anti-LGBTQ+ hate crime, hate speech and harassment
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'}
Dublin Rape Crisis Centre
May–August
[Public Expenditure and Reform] Mention the need for the DSGBV sector to have access to adequate, sustainable funding and supports.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Lorraine Clifford-Lee', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}
Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed
May–August
[Social Protection] In July, the INOU participated in the Department of Social Protection’s Pre-Budget Forum, which took place in Farmleigh House, Phoenix Park, Dublin. The INOU’s Pre-Budget 2024 Submission was sent into DSP beforehand and it covered adequate income; supportive employment services; employment and programmes; education and training; and social inclusion.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Heather Humphreys', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Social Protection)'} {'name': "Joe O'Brien", 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Social Protection)'}
UL Student Life
May–August
[Education and Training] The UL Student President was invited to attend Funding The Future by Minister of Education Simon Harris a discussion concerning policy options regarding in the next Budget in the Alexander Hotel in May 25th 2023. At this event the Student President lobbyed on behalf of the student population at UL for the government to increase capitation per student, and to adequately fund demographic change on the University Campus
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Simon Harris', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Further and Higher Education, Innovation and Science)'}
L'Arche Ireland
May–August
[Finance] We, as an organisation, seek to highlight the need for assistance in meeting HIQA and governance requirements, without current adequate funding.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Anne Rabbitte', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Anne Rabbitte', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth)'} {'name': 'Tom Clonan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}
Society of St. Vincent de Paul
September–December
[Social Protection] Disseminating findings of research on 'The cost of adequately heating the home'.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Paul Gavan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Mark Wall', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Charles Flanagan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Denise Mitchell', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Heather Humphreys', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Social Protection)'} {'name': 'Kathleen Funchion', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 41 more
Castleknock Community Centre Association Company Limited by Guarantee
September–December
[Employment] Meeting with An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar on 20th October 2023 at Castleknock Community Centre Laurel Lodge to discuss the struggle of community centres to retain quality staff due to an inadequate level of funding awarded to Social Enterprises (SE) through Pobal CSP. The meeting was to highlight the need for an increase in Pobal CSP funding to help alleviate the financial pressure put on SE. SE are mainly a low base generated income business who rely on Pobal Funding to continue the
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'}
Limerick Youth Service
September–December
[Budgetary matters] Highlight that 1.6% increase in funding for youth services is wholly inadequate and requested issue be brought to Minister O Gorman and request increase for youth funding from DCEDIY should exceed the rate of inflation
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Brian Leddin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Niall Collins', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Further and Higher Education, Innovation and Science)'} {'name': "Kieran O'Donnell", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
Ibec
January–April
[Employment] Adequate Minimum Wage Directive
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Dermot Mulligan', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'} {'name': 'Maria Walsh', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}
DFBA Community Enterprises CLG
January–April
[Development and Zoning] Following up on previous requests to public representatives to make representations to Irish Water to urge a change of attitude to the provision of adequate water supply in Dunhill, Co Waterford.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Marc Ó Cathasaigh', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'David Cullinane', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Malcolm Noonan', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'Liam Brazil', 'role': 'Councillor (Waterford City and County Council)'}
Sustainable Water Network (SWAN)
January–April
[Agriculture] Press release put out on CAP Strategic Plan by SWAN in conjunction with the Environmental Pillar and retweet was made of IEN's tweet with the press release, specifically highlighting SWAN's ask for adequate measure's to cut agriculture pollution to Ireland's water bodies that show evidence they will meet good water status.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Charlie McConalogue', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'}
Early Childhood Ireland
May–August
[Children and Youth Affairs] The benchmark set by Unicef, of 1% of GDP for state spending as a standard for adequate childcare provision.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Colm Burke', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
Starrus Eco Holdings, a subsidary of Beauparc Utiliites
September–December
[Development and Zoning] The need for zoning of lands for waste processing in order to ensure that there is adequate capacity for waste processing to meet the needs of a growing population.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Brian Gleeson', 'role': 'CEO (Wicklow County Council)'}
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