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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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Amnesty International Ireland
September–December
[EU Affairs] Email forwarding copy of letter, report and briefing from Amnesty's International Secretariat with recommendations for the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Dara Calleary', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Irish Bioenergy Association
September–December
[Energy and Natural Resources] Invitation to Minister Ryan and Minister Mc Conalogue to deliver the opening and closing addresses and officials to speak and attend the National Bioenergy Conference at the Royal Marine Hotel, Dún Laoghaire on the 12th October 2023
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Charlie McConalogue', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Barry Quinlan', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Matthew Collins', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Brendan Gleeson', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Bill Callanan', 'role': 'Chief Inspector (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'}
🌍 Climate & Energy View on lobbying.ie →
Amnesty International Ireland
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] Iran: anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death in custody and response to the protests arising thereafter
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Seán Haughey', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Brendan Howlin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Mick Barry', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Richard Boyd Barrett', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Gino Kenny', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Paul Murphy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 5 more
🌍 Climate & Energy View on lobbying.ie →
Amnesty International Ireland
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] Sharing new Amnesty research report, "They violently raped me: Sexual violence weaponised to crush Iran’s Woman Life Freedom uprising"
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Seán Haughey', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Brendan Howlin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Mick Barry', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Richard Boyd Barrett', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Gino Kenny', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Paul Murphy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 5 more
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John Gallagher
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
September–December
[Community] Promotion of Policies of The Wheel for charity, social enterprise and community and voluntary sector
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Paul Donnelly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Ged Nash', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Rose Conway-Walsh', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Grant Sweetnam', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'} {'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Thomas Byrne', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of the Taoiseach)'} + 6 more
🏢 Enterprise & Employment View on lobbying.ie →
Irish Bioenergy Association
September–December
[Energy and Natural Resources] Informal meeting with Minister Coveney at the Brazilian Embassy Dublin event titled "Bioenergy – Brazil and Ireland, strengthening ties and sharing knowledge"
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'}
🌍 Climate & Energy View on lobbying.ie →
Irish Bioenergy Association
September–December
[Trade] Letter to the Minister for Transport and the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to request that the Irish Government object to the EU tariff suspension for Used Cooking Oil
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Transport)'} {'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'}
🌍 Climate & Energy 🏢 Enterprise & Employment View on lobbying.ie →
Vincent Jennings/Convenience Stores and Newsagents Association (CSNA)
September–December
[Budgetary matters] Budget 2024 did not contain any retailer-specific reliefs, CSNA needed to make various Ministers aware of how those in our SME retail businesses are affected by Government policy directions.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Alan Dillon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Alan Farrell', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Anne Rabbitte', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Bernard Durkan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Brendan Griffin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Cathal Crowe', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 54 more
📚 Education 🏢 Enterprise & Employment 🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Nasc Ireland
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] Co-signed open letter re humanitarian situation in Gaza
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}
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Alcohol Forum Ireland
September–December
[Education and Training] Concern regarding possible conflict of interest issues relating to the involvement of gambling industry funded charity, the Gambling Awareness Trust in funding activities in Irish health and education settings (both secondary and third level)
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Roisin Shortall (Former DPO)', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Mary Seery Kearney', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Mark Wall', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Thomas Pringle', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Thomas Gould', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Charlie McConalogue', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} + 3 more
📚 Education 🏥 Health View on lobbying.ie →
Immigrant Council of Ireland
September–December
[Housing] Clarification sought on who was responsible for medium term housing given PQ response Oct 4th 2022 stating DoHLG responsible.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Elizabeth Canavan', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of the Taoiseach)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Mark White
September–December
[Marine] Meeting to seek support for the Development of Ros a Mhíl harbaour to service Offshore Renewable Energy as well as fisheries
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Sinead McSherry', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary General (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Charlie McConalogue', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'}
🌾 Agriculture 🌍 Climate & Energy View on lobbying.ie →
Plan International Ireland
September–December
[EU Affairs] Joint letter from 8 NGOs and the Dóchas Network to urge the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minster for Defence to increase the European Union budget for humanitarian aid from 2024 onwards
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
The CARI Foundation
September–December
[Children and Youth Affairs] Urging Government including the Department of Health, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability Integration and Youth and the Department of Justice to act collectively to prevent CARI from having to close its doors.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': "1 email to advise of CARI's funding crisis and risk of closing. followed by an email update."} {'name': 'Helen McEntee', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice)'} {'name': "Kieran O'Donnell", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🌍 Climate & Energy 🏥 Health ⚖️ Justice & Legal View on lobbying.ie →
Irish fish Producers Organisation Ltd
September–December
[Marine] BAR Funding and Policy issues, Stakeholder perspectives re Policy Matters and Implementation
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Brendan Gleeson', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Charlie McConalogue', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Darran Brennan', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Sinead McSherry', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary General (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Pearse Doherty', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Chris MacManus', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} + 3 more
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Irish fish Producers Organisation Ltd
September–December
[Marine] Policy considerations Seafood Sector and TAC Negotiations
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Charlie McConalogue', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Sinead McSherry', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary General (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Brendan Gleeson', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Darran Brennan', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'}
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Atlantic Youth Trust
September–December
[Education and Training] Maritime Education Programme
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Simon Harris', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Further and Higher Education, Innovation and Science)'}
📚 Education View on lobbying.ie →
Mainstream Renewable Power
September–December
[Marine] Marine Renewables Industry Association Autumn Lunch- Laura Brien was guest Speaker- Mark Mellet was at the same table as Leo Quinn Mainstream representative. Event sponsored by Ernst and Young. Leo Quinn briefly spoke to Laura Brien after the speech and he provided a brief overview of Mainstream and our involvement to date in Irish offshore wind.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Laura Brien', 'role': 'Chief Executive Officer (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'Mark Mellet', 'role': 'Chairman (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'}
🌍 Climate & Energy View on lobbying.ie →
Irish ProShare Association
September–December
[Taxation] IPSA is a not-for-profit organisation which advocates for employee share ownership. IPSA made a finance bill 2023 submission on behalf of its members to the Minister for Finance regarding changes provided for under Section 12 of the Finance Bill (No 2) 2023 regarding payroll withholding for share option gains from 2024. IPSA identified various challenges for employers in the very short period before the application of the new provisions and made a number of recommendations.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Peter McVerry Trust
September–December
[Housing] Acknowledging receipt of letter dated 10 October from Stephen Boggs in relation to the financial review of the Trust by PwC and clarification of points raised in the letter.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Stephen Boggs B.L', 'role': 'Legal Adviser (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Valero Energy (Ireland) Limited
September–December
[Energy and Natural Resources] Potential impact on the supply of biodiesel to Ireland arising from the European Commission investigation into imports of Indonesian biodiesel.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}
🌍 Climate & Energy View on lobbying.ie →
Delta Centre
May–August
[Health] challenges facing Section HSE funded 39 organizations including inflation costs verses salaries of employees in Section 39 agencies, resulting in major issues in recruitment and retention of staff which in turn has potential negative impact on the quality services to people with disabilities
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jennifer Murnane (Former DPO)', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Jennifer Murnane O'Connor", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🏥 Health View on lobbying.ie →
Limerick Enterprise Development Partnership (LEDP)
September–December
[Budgetary matters] Budget 2023 – Temporary Business Energy Support Scheme & its Application to the Charity Sector
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} {'name': "Patrick O'Donovan", 'role': 'Minister of State (The Office of Public Works)'} {'name': 'Niall Collins', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Further and Higher Education, Innovation and Science)'} {'name': "Willie O'Dea", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Maria Byrne', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': "Kieran O'Donnell", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🌍 Climate & Energy 🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
The Plant Variety Development Office CLG
September–December
[Agriculture] EU Commission review on legislation governing New Breeding Techniques for plants
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Pippa Hackett', 'role': 'Super Junior Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'}
🌾 Agriculture View on lobbying.ie →
Ibec
September–December
[Taxation] Ibec views on issues arising in the Finance Bill
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'John Hogan', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Finance)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Mental Health Ireland
September–December
[Health] Various dates in October to secure Taoiseach address, and attending speakers at IIMHL & IIDL leadership exchange conference. Mental Health Ireland deputy CEO communicated via the offices of: An Taoiseach, Minister Butler, Senator Eileen Flynn & Maria Walsh MEP
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Maria Walsh', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Eileen Flynn', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}
🏥 Health View on lobbying.ie →
Mental Health Ireland
September–December
[Health] At the National Ploughing Championships on 20th September, Mental Health Ireland Development Officer Finola Colgan met with An Taoiseach Mícheal Martin, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, Ministers Martin Heyden & Mary Lou McDonald, Maria Walsh MEP & Charlie Flanagan TD
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'An Tánaiste (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Maria Walsh', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Martin Heydon', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Charles Flanagan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Mary Lou McDonald', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🏥 Health 🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Mental Health Ireland
September–December
[Health] Pre and Post event planning meetings to confirm speaker engagement @ International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership & International Initiative for Disability Leadership, European Hub of Global Conference - Leadership Exchange. Various Meeting dates throughout October, culminating in speaking and attendance engagements at the event on 26th & 27th October 2022
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Maria Walsh', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Anne Rabbitte', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth)'} {'name': 'Eileen Flynn', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}
🏥 Health View on lobbying.ie →
Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] Campaign calling for action to stop deporation of HRD Salah Hammouri by Israel
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign
September–December
[Foreign Affairs] Requests to meet with Shawan Jabarin, Director of Al Haq human rights organisation
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'John Brady', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Ivana Bacik', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Emer Higgins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Barry Ward', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Seán Haughey', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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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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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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