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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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ActionAid Ireland
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] Letters requesting meeting on ActionAid's climate paper "How the Finance Flows" sent to Eamon Ryan Minister for the Environment, Climate, Communications and Transport and Michael McGrath Minister for Finance
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'}
ActionAid Ireland
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] Sent ActionAid's climate policy report "How the Finance Flows" by email to members of the Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach, to the Committee on Environment and Climate Action, and to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, and sent letters about the report to Tanaiste Micheal Martin, Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Paschal Donohoe and an Taoiseach Leo Varadkar
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Gary Gannon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Charles Flanagan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Barry Cowen', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Cathal Berry', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Matt Carthy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Réada Cronin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 37 more
ActionAid Ireland
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] Letter informing about ActionAid's climate report "How the Finance Flows" sent to MEPs Ciaran Cuffe, Deirdre Clune, Frances Fitzgerald, Barry Andrews
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Barry Andrews', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Ciarán Cuffe', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Deirdre Clune', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Frances Fitzgerald', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}
ActionAid Ireland
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] Letter sent to encourage Irish government to challenge IMF on austerity policies pushed by IMF in the Global South.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}
ActionAid Ireland
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] Letters sent to Leo Varadkar, Michael Martin, Sec Gen of D/Taoiseach and D/FA, Irish Ambassadors of all EU countries, Israel and United States and Perm Reps for EU and UN encouraging Ireland to use all diplomatic channels to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'Joe Hackett', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'John Callinan', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of the Taoiseach)'}
ActionAid Ireland
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] Letter to Michael Martin ahead of EU Foreign Affairs Meeting regarding Gaza
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}
ActionAid Ireland
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] AV Room briefing held in Leinster House with Deputy Pringle where ActionAid representatives from Ireland and Bangaldesh spoke about Loss and Damage and the role Ireland plays in financing fossil fuels.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Thomas Pringle', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
ActionAid Ireland
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] Briefing sent to opposition parties and some independents to support in the debates in the Dail regarding Gaza.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Thomas Pringle', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Catherine Connolly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Mary Lou McDonald', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Ivana Bacik', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Holly Cairns', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Brendan Howlin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 6 more
ActionAid Ireland
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] COP28 Briefing sent to all Climate Committee Members of the Dáil, Minister Ryan and the head of the DFA delegation to COP28.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Brian Leddin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Christopher O'Sullivan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Richard Bruton', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Martin Kenny', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Cormac Devlin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Alan Farrell', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 8 more
ActionAid Ireland
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] Email sent to Irish MEPs, all members of the Climate Committee of the Dáil, Thomas Pringle and Minister Ryan regarding the EU and Ireland's role in funding fossil fuels and agribusiness. Reports shared highlighting both the EU and Ireland role in same.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Ciarán Cuffe', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Frances Fitzgerald', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Clare Daly', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Barry Andrews', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Luke Ming Flanagan', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Maria Walsh', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} + 20 more
ActionAid Ireland
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] ActionAid sent a coordinated letter with, Amnesty International Ireland, Christian Aid Ireland, Frontline Defenders, Global Legal Action Network, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Sadaka - the Ireland Palestine Alliance, Trócaire to request a meeting with Minister Martin and set out the ongoing crises in Palestine.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}
ActionAid Ireland
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] Emails sent to leaders and climate spokespeople for SF, SD, LAB and Paul Murphy and Minister Donohoe and McGrath encouraging support for Thomas Pringle motion on fossil fuel divestment. Explanations provided for why it should be supported.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Paul Murphy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Rebecca Moynihan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Ivana Bacik', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Mary Lou McDonald', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Darren O'Rourke", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Holly Cairns', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 3 more
ActionAid Ireland
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] Speaking at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action in advance of COP28
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Brian Leddin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Christopher O'Sullivan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Richard Bruton', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Cormac Devlin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Alan Farrell', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Martin Kenny', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 8 more
ActionAid Ireland
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] Invite to MEP Barry Andrews to be a panelist on a webinar covering "A feminist perspective on EU’s plan towards Binding Regulation for Transnational Companies"
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Barry Andrews', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}
ActionAid Ireland
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] Requests sent to members of the Climate Committee to meet with Director of ActionAid Bangladesh to discuss COP28 and Climate Change.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': "Christopher O'Sullivan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Brian Leddin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Jennifer Whitmore', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Richard Bruton', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Lynn Boylan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Alan Farrell', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 1 more
ActionAid Ireland
January–April
[Foreign Affairs] Presentation to Frances Fitzgerald MEP at NGO event and follow-up letter. Particular points highlighted were the failure by the EU to listen to the voices of civil society, particularly feminist movements in Africa, asymmetrical power relations between AU and EU, the failure by the EU to address systemic and structural change, the need for urgent economic and climate justice.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Frances Fitzgerald', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}
ActionAid Ireland
January–April
[Foreign Affairs] Invitations sent by email to the Foreign Affairs Committee Deputies and Senators, to the Gender Equality Committee Deputies and Senators and to members of the Oireachtas Women’s Caucus to join the online launch of ActionAid Ireland’s new strategy.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Cathal Berry', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'John Brady', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Sorca Clarke', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Barry Cowen', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Charles Flanagan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Gary Gannon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 22 more
ActionAid Ireland
May–August
[Foreign Affairs] Emailed all members of the foreign affairs committee on the ActionAid food, fuel and fertiliser research showing that local food and fuel prices had more than tripled in some of the world’s most at risk communities.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Cathal Berry', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'John Brady', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Sorca Clarke', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Barry Cowen', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Charles Flanagan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'James Lawless', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 5 more
ActionAid Ireland
May–August
[Foreign Affairs] Emailed all members of the foreign affairs committee detailing food insecurity in Afghanistan and ActionAid's current response.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Cathal Berry', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'John Brady', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Sorca Clarke', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Barry Cowen', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Charles Flanagan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'James Lawless', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 8 more
ActionAid Ireland
May–August
[Environment] Email invitations to join an ActionAid policy lab on climate change.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Catherine Connolly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Neasa Hourigan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
ActionAid Ireland
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] Invitation to meet Susan Otieno, visit director of ActionAid Kenya to discuss the climate crisis and the impact of food insecurity on women's rights
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Gary Gannon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Ivana Bacik', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'John Brady', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Charles Flanagan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Sorca Clarke', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Cathal Berry', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 3 more
ActionAid Ireland
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] Meeting on the impact of the climate crisis on women in Kenya between CEO of ActionAid Ireland Karol Balfe and visiting Director of ActionAid Kenya Susan Otieno with Ivana Bacik TD and the political advisers of Alice Mary Higgins, Neale Richmond, Anny Hoey,
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Ivana Bacik', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
ActionAid Ireland
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] Meeting on the impact of the climate crisis on women in Kenya, between Communications and Campaigns Manager at ActionAid Ireland Jo-Ann Ward and visiting Director of ActionAid Kenya Susan Otieno with Gary Gannon TD..
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Gary Gannon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
ActionAid Ireland
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] Contacted the then Minister of Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney ahead of the United Nations Transforming Education Summit in New York
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}
ActionAid Ireland
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] Joint advocacy on loss and damage with other NGOs to Minister of Environment, Climate and Communications ahead of the COP27 summit.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}
ActionAid Ireland
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] Highlight new paper on the impact of austerity on global education to the Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney and Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe, jointly signed by ActionAid and four teachers unions.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'}
ActionAid Ireland
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] Emails to Brid Smith TD highlighting ActionAid Ireland's Eductaion V Austerity paper and regarding a parlimentary question
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Bríd Smith', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
ActionAid Ireland
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] Highlight new paper pubished by ActionAid and Irish teacher's unions "Education V Austerity" to the Foreign Affairs and Education Committees along with Ivana Bacik and Colm Brophy.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Charles Flanagan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Barry Cowen', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Cathal Berry', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'John Brady', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Sorca Clarke', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'James Lawless', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 22 more
ActionAid Ireland
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] Highlighted ActionAid's research on the impact of Loss and Damage to members of the Committees on Foreign Affairs, Climate and Gender and the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Environment.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Charles Flanagan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Barry Cowen', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Cathal Berry', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'John Brady', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Sorca Clarke', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Gary Gannon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 30 more
ActionAid Ireland
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] Sent ActionAid's report on how to ensure a gender-responsive EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive to then Minister for Enterprise Leo Vradkar, then Taoiseach Micheal Martin and then Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney as well as MEPs Frances Fitzgerald, Deirdre Clune, Barry Andrews and Grace O'Sullivan.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'Frances Fitzgerald', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Deirdre Clune', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Barry Andrews', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} + 1 more
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