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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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Environmental Pillar
January–April
[Environment] Environmental and human rights threats as a result of War in Ukraine
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'Charlie McConalogue', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'}
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Environmental Pillar
January–April
[Environment] Environmental Education
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Norma Foley', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Education)'}
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Environmental Pillar
January–April
[Environment] Offshore Renewable Energy
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}
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Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] Planning and Development No. 2 Bill 2022
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Eoin Ó Broin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🌾 Agriculture 🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Environmental Pillar
January–April
[Environment] General Scheme for the Housing Planning and Development Bill 2019
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Victor Boyhan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Eoin Ó Broin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Cian O'Callaghan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'David Healy', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of the Taoiseach)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Environmental Pillar
January–April
[Environment] General Scheme of the Revised General Scheme of the Monuments & Archaeological Bill
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Victor Boyhan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': "Cian O'Callaghan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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Environmental Pillar
January–April
[Environment] Planning and Development Act 2000
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Alice-Mary Higgins', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Lynn Boylan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Eoin Ó Broin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Victor Boyhan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Martin Kenny', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Cian O'Callaghan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🌾 Agriculture 🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Environmental Pillar
January–April
[Environment] Planning and Development ( Exempted Development ) Regulations - SI 75/2022
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Lynn Boylan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Michael McDowell', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Frances Black', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'David Norris', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Alice-Mary Higgins', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Jennifer Whitmore', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 2 more
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Environmental Pillar
January–April
[Environment] Planning and Development (Solar Panels for Public Buildings, Schools, Homes and Other Premises) (Amendment) Bill 2021
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Lynn Boylan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Michael McDowell', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Frances Black', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Alice-Mary Higgins', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Jennifer Whitmore', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Eoin Ó Broin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 1 more
🌍 Climate & Energy 📚 Education 🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] European Pesticide Regulation
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Charlie McConalogue', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Pippa Hackett', 'role': 'Super Junior Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': "Darragh O'Brien", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'Malcolm Noonan', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'Barry Andrews', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} + 9 more
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Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] Ireland's Common Agricultural Policy Strategic Plan and the European Commission’s Observations on the plan, highlighting deficiencies with plan as it relates to pollution, climate and biodiversity
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Charlie McConalogue', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Pippa Hackett', 'role': 'Super Junior Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Malcolm Noonan', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': "Darragh O'Brien", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'}
🌾 Agriculture 🌍 Climate & Energy View on lobbying.ie →
Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] Request to include environmental sector in social dialogue engagements
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Deirdre Gillane', 'role': 'Chief of Staff (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Dónall Geoghegan', 'role': 'Chief of Staff (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'An Tánaiste (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'John Shaw', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of the Taoiseach)'}
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Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] Minerals Exploration Group statement; CE Bill update; Deposit and Return Scheme; Aquaculture policy updates; EU infringements regarding environmental matters updates
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Philip Nugent', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}
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Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] Biodiversity Conservation Policy
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Malcolm Noonan', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'}
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Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] The Adoption of a Sectoral Emissions Ceiling for Agriculture
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Pippa Hackett', 'role': 'Super Junior Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Charlie McConalogue', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'}
🌾 Agriculture 🌍 Climate & Energy View on lobbying.ie →
Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Budgetary matters] Environmental Pillar pre-budget submission
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}
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Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] Meeting to discuss: Circular Economy Bill; social dialogue and environmental NGOs; Carbon emissions sectoral targets; access to justice; energy security and EU Energy Council; retrofitting
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Paul Kenny', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}
🌍 Climate & Energy ⚖️ Justice & Legal View on lobbying.ie →
Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] Request to support and lead on the initiative for a new Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) establishing the right to a healthy environment.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}
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Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Agriculture] Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture Food & Marine discussion on Calculation of Methane Emissions and Sectoral Emission Ceilings
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Brian Leddin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🌾 Agriculture 🌍 Climate & Energy View on lobbying.ie →
Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] Planning and Development No. 2 Bill 2022 which became the Planning and Development, Maritime and Valuation (Amendment) Bill 2022
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Eoin Ó Broin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Cian O'Callaghan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Catherine Connolly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Ivana Bacik', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Aodhán Ó Ríordáin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Richard Boyd Barrett', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 12 more
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Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Energy and Natural Resources] Offshore renewable energy, MPAs, outstanding Natura 2000 designations; lack of participation on Maritime Area Consents and the REPower initiative
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Richard Boyd Barrett', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] Planning and Development Act 2000 - decision on substitute consent for the Derrybrien Windfarm and outstanding judgments of the CJEU in cases c-215/06 c-261/18
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Philip Nugent', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}
🌾 Agriculture 🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] Planning and Development Act 2000
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Victor Boyhan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}
🏠 Housing ⚖️ Justice & Legal View on lobbying.ie →
Environmental Pillar
September–December
[Environment] Calling on elected representatives to support greater ambition within the negotiations with the European Commissions on the proposal for a regulation on Nature Restoration
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Malcolm Noonan', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Charlie McConalogue', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': "Darragh O'Brien", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'Pippa Hackett', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Chris Andrews', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 189 more
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Environmental Pillar
September–December
[Environment] Calling on the Irish government to support greater ambition within the negotiations at COP 15
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Malcolm Noonan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Hannah Hamilton', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'}
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Environmental Pillar
September–December
[Environment] Calling on Irish Ministers to support the adoption of the European Commission's proposal for a Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products Regulation
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Charlie McConalogue', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Pippa Hackett', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Malcolm Noonan', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}
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Environmental Pillar
September–December
[Environment] Meeting to discuss: Planning and Development Act 2000 as it pertains to Access to Justice and the Aarhus Convention; social dialogue and environmental NGOs; Carbon emissions sectoral targets; access to justice; energy security and EU Energy Council; retrofitting
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Paul Kenny', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'David Healy', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of the Taoiseach)'}
🌍 Climate & Energy 🏠 Housing ⚖️ Justice & Legal View on lobbying.ie →
Environmental Pillar
September–December
[Local Government] Meeting with Minister Joe O'Brien to discuss structural review of PPNs, highlighting our concerns
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': "Joe O'Brien", 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Rural and Community Development)'}
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Environmental Pillar
September–December
[Environment] Meeting to discuss: Future of Social Dialogue Cost of living challenges Climate Action Plan Biodiversity funding Wellbeing Framework
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'} {'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Pippa Hackett', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Dónall Geoghegan', 'role': 'Chief of Staff (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Deirdre Gillane', 'role': 'Chief of Staff (Department of the Taoiseach)'} + 2 more
🌍 Climate & Energy 🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Environmental Pillar
September–December
[Environment] Request for meeting with Minister Ryan
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Paul Kenny', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'David Healy', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of the Taoiseach)'}
🏠 Housing ⚖️ Justice & Legal View on lobbying.ie →
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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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