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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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Mental Health Reform
May–August
[Budgetary matters] Engage in discussions on the status of the bill to reform the mental health act and MHR's PBS campaign
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}
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Mental Health Reform
May–August
[Health] Publication of the Mental Health Bill 2024
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mark Ward', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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Mental Health Reform
May–August
[Health] Parliamentary Questions relating to the plans of the Oireachtas Disability Group (ODG) for pre-budget work and manifesto work
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Thomas Pringle', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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Mental Health Reform
May–August
[Health] Re-established the connection, offer congratulations on re elections and communicate williness to work together on priorities over coming 5yr term
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Maria Walsh', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}
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Mental Health Reform
May–August
[Budgetary matters] Seek clarification on an announced 'additional' investment of 10M in to the mental health budget
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}
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Mental Health Reform
May–August
[Budgetary matters] Requested that an Oral Parliamentary Question to the Minister for DPER be submitted on clarity around budget allocations
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Pearse Doherty', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Rose Conway-Walsh', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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Mental Health Reform
May–August
[Health] Seek prioritisation of the bill to reform the Mental Health Act for the next legislative programme
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Hildegarde Naughton', 'role': 'Government Chief Whip and Minister (Department of the Taoiseach)'}
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Mental Health Reform
May–August
[Budgetary matters] Emailed to relevant members of the Cabinet ahead of the last Cabinet meeting of the Dáil Term
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Simon Harris', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Norma Foley', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Education)'} {'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Helen McEntee', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice and Equality)'} {'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} + 3 more
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Mental Health Reform
May–August
[Budgetary matters] Seek selected public reps support for Mental Health Refroms PBS campaign and deliver campaign tshirts for reps who would like to take part
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Simon Harris', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Mark Ward', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Neasa Hourigan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Annie Hoey', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Frances Black', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Gino Kenny', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 2 more
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Mental Health Reform
May–August
[Health] Brief discussion on the status of the bill to reform the Mental Health Act
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}
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Youth Advocate Programmes Ireland CLG
September–December
[Health] Mental Health Reform hosted meet and greet in Leinster House
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Paul Donnelly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Chris Andrews', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Neasa Hourigan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Róisín Shorthall', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Chris Andrews', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Dessie Ellis', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 36 more
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Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
September–December
[Children and Youth Affairs] Engagement with public representatives at a Mental Health Reform members showcase event.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Hildegarde Naughton', 'role': 'Government Chief Whip and Minister (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Frank Fahy', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Helen Uchechukwu Ogbu', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'}
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Mental Health Reform
September–December
[Health] Mental Health Bill 2024
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': "Briefing sent on 9th Oct 2024 to all TDs ahead of 'Statements to mark World Mental Health Day: Making Mental Health a Priority for Everyone’ on 10th October - briefing covered: 1. Early intervention and prevention and the voluntary and community mental health sector\n2. Mental Health Reform’s manifesto asks for the General Election\n3. The Mental Health Bill 2024"} {'name': 'Simon Harris', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'} {'name': "Roderic O'Gorman", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth)'} {'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'} + 1 more
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Mental Health Reform
September–December
[Budgetary matters] MHR's event in Leinster House on 18th September; 'Meet&Greet'
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': 'Invite to Meet & Greet sent to all TDs/Senators/Ministers on 18th September 2024.'} {'name': 'Email All Senators', 'role': 'Same as Above'} {'name': 'Chris Andrews', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Dessie Ellis', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Paul Donnelly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Neasa Hourigan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 34 more
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Mental Health Reform
September–December
[Budgetary matters] MHR's Pre-Budget Campaign 2025 - https://mentalhealthreform.ie/budget-2025
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': "Email sent on 1st Oct 2024 ahead of Budgetary discussions with copy of MHR's PBS and two page summary to all opposition deputies i.e., all deputies in Sinn Féin, Labour, Social Democrats, Aontu, People Before Profit and independent TDs."} {'name': 'Niamh Richardson-Dunn', 'role': 'Adviser to Minister of State (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Simon Harris', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'} + 3 more
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Mental Health Reform
September–December
[Budgetary matters] MHR's Manifesto Asks ahead of General Election
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Email All Councillors', 'role': "Email sent to all councillors with MHR's manifesto asks"}
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Mental Health Reform
September–December
[Health] Briefing for the Disability Matters Committee ahead of discussion on 'Health and well-being for Persons with Disabilities’ (23rd October 2024)
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Michael Moynihan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Pauline Tully', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Seán Canney', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Dessie Ellis', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Frank Feighan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 8 more
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Mental Health Reform
September–December
[Health] Mental Health Reform's "Regional?Members’ Showcase"
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'Invite sent to elected reps re Mental Health Reform\'s "Regional\u202fMembers’ Showcase" taking place in Galway City Council, City Hall, College Road, Galway, on Monday, 11th November from 12pm – 2pm. Email sent on 18th Oct 2024'} {'name': 'Helen Uchechukwu Ogbu', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Hildegarde Naughton', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Frank Fahy', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Ollie Turner', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway County Council)'}
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Mental Health Reform
September–December
[Health] Mental Health Reform's Mental Health Hustings
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Claire Kerrane', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Aisling Dolan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Eugene Murphy', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Eibhlín Seoighthe', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Helen Uchechukwu Ogbu', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'John Connolly', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} + 12 more
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Mental Health Reform
September–December
[Health] New Ceann Comhairle elected to Dail on 18th December 2024
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Verona Murphy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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Mental Health Reform
September–December
[Health] Programme for Government Briefing & LSE Launch Save the Date
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': "MHR's Programme for Government Briefing on the mental health priorities of members and save the date sent on 18th Dec 2024."} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Jack Chambers', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Niamh Richardson-Dunn', 'role': 'Adviser to Minister of State (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Darragh O'Brien", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} + 19 more
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Mental Health Reform
September–December
[Health] Programme for Government
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Michael Lowry', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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Mental Health Reform
September–December
[Health] Mental Health Bill 2024 - scheduling of the Bill for the return of the Dáil on September 18th
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Holly Cairns', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Ivana Bacik', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Duncan Smith', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Denis Naughten', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Padráig Mac Lochlainn', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Mark Ward', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 2 more
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Mental Health Reform
September–December
[Health] Mental Health Bill 2024
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': 'Sent briefing note with MHR messaging plus a copy of the plain english summary of the NALA approved Mental Health Bill 2024'} {'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Thomas Pringle', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Catherine Connolly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Violet Anne Wynne', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Danny Healy-Rae', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 5 more
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Mental Health Reform
September–December
[Health] The Mental Health Bill 2024 and the UNCRPD
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Kathleen Funchion', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Eoin Ó Broin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Chris Andrews', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Thomas Gould', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Dessie Ellis', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Aengus Ó Snodaigh', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 1 more
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Mental Health Reform
September–December
[Budgetary matters] Budget 2025
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mark Ward', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Neasa Hourigan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Holly Cairns', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Eileen Flynn', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Annie Hoey', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Frances Black', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}
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Mental Health Reform
September–December
[Health] Follow-up on email invites by Suzanna Weedle to take part in our General Election hustings on mental health in the University of Galway on November 11th
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Catherine Connolly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Mairéad Farrell', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Seán Kyne', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'John Connolly', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Helen Uchechukwu Ogbu', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Noel Thomas', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway County Council)'} + 2 more
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Mental Health Reform
September–December
[Health] Letter re a sustainable funding model for publicly funded service delivery organisations providing essential public services on behalf of the state.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Simon Harris', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'}
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Mental Health Reform
September–December
[Health] Sharing information on MHR's lunchtime event in Leinster House on 18th September on MH lanuage
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}
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Mental Health Reform
September–December
[Health] Circulation of letter to to be sent to Govt on disappointment related to non-passage of MH Bill and positive suggestion around extending powers of MHC
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Letter All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'Circulation of letter to to be sent to Govt on disappointment related to non-passage of MH Bill and positive suggestion around extending powers of MHC. Letter was also sent to newspapers on 6.11.2024'}
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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.
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