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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
September–December
[Environment] Request to hold more thorough public consultation on NRRP and publication of associated environmental assessments
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Eamonn Fahey', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'} {'name': 'Ossian Smyth', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'} {'name': "Patrick O'Donovan", 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'} {'name': 'Mairéad Farrell', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Alice-Mary Higgins', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}
🏢 Enterprise & Employment View on lobbying.ie →
Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] Request for information on activities relating to environmental policy in the Good Friday Agreement bodies
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Paul Kenny', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}
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Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] Withdraw National Marine Planning Framework Motion from Dáil proceedings
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Steven Matthews', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Brian Leddin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Malcolm Noonan', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': "Joe O'Brien", 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Rural and Community Development)'}
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Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] Agri-food Strategy 2030 as it relates to climate, biodiversity, public participation and forestry
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Stiofán Nutty', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'David Healy', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Anna Conlan', 'role': 'Chief of Staff (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Paul Kenny', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Dónall Geoghegan', 'role': 'Chief of Staff (Department of the Taoiseach)'}
🌾 Agriculture 🌍 Climate & Energy View on lobbying.ie →
Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] Requested updates regarding: carbon budgets and Climate Action Plan; Energy and LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas); Citizens Assembly on Biodiversity; civil society participation in social dialogue
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': 'Anna Conlan', 'role': 'Chief of Staff (Department of the Taoiseach)'}
🌍 Climate & Energy 🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] Importance of environmental NGOs in formal and informal dialogue to shape public policy as it pertains to the natural environment
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Deirdre Gillane', 'role': 'Chief of Staff (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Dónall Geoghegan', 'role': 'Chief of Staff (Department of the Taoiseach)'}
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Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] Requested update on NPWS review process and outcomes, the Citizens Assembly on Biodiversity and the implementation of Maritime Spatial Planning Directive
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Malcolm Noonan', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'Hannah Hamilton', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'}
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Environmental Pillar
May–August
[EU Affairs] EU oversight of Ireland's implementation of EU legislation, in particular the following pieces of legislation: Maritime Spatial Planning; EU SLAPP Litigation; NRRP legislation; Delegated acts for EU Taxonomy Regulation; Implementation of EU Green Deal and enforcement of EU law; EU Aarhus Regulation;
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': "Grace O'Sullivan", 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Mick Wallace', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}
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Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] Ireland's compliance with EU legislation and negative impact of gaps in compliance on the marine environment, namely: EU Fishery Policy, CFP; implementation of EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive; EU Maritime Spatial Planning; Habitats Directive & EIA Directive
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mick Wallace', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}
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Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] Upcoming EU legislative proposal on methane reductions in the energy sector
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mick Wallace', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}
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Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] Work programme of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Alice-Mary Higgins', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Lynn Boylan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}
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Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] Planning and Development, Heritage and Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Bill 47 of 2021) and EU Habitats Directive
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Alice-Mary Higgins', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] Maritime Jurisdiction Bill, 2021 - enactment of legislation
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Alice-Mary Higgins', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Padráig Mac Lochlainn', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'John Brady', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Jennifer Whitmore', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] EU Aarhus Regulation - amendment of regulation
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'David Healy', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Mick Wallace', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}
🏢 Enterprise & Employment 🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] EU EIA and Habitats Directive non-compliance and CJEU rulings re: Derrybrien Windfarm
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Eoin Ó Broin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Chris MacManus', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}
🌾 Agriculture View on lobbying.ie →
Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] Mineral extraction - Investor State Dispute Settlement clauses
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Lynn Boylan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Thomas Pringle', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Richard Boyd Barrett', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Cian O'Callaghan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Jennifer Whitmore', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] Energy Charter Treaty
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Alice-Mary Higgins', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Lynn Boylan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}
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Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] Oireachtas legislative process - Letter from President Higgins on his concerns about volumes of legislation to be considered in short timeframe and implications for his duties.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Padráig Mac Lochlainn', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Catherine Murphy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Cian O'Callaghan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Jennifer Whitmore', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Lynn Boylan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Alice-Mary Higgins', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}
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Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] Shannon LNG & PCI list
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Alice-Mary Higgins', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}
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Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] Oireachtas Standing Orders
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Alice-Mary Higgins', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': "Cian O'Callaghan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] Planning and Development, Heritage and Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Bill 47 of 2021) and EU Habitats Directive
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Alice-Mary Higgins', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] General Scheme for Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Eoin Ó Broin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] General Scheme of the (Housing) Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill - Pre Legislative scrutiny of Bill
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Eoin Ó Broin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Victor Boyhan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}
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Environmental Pillar
May–August
[Environment] Planning and Development (Amendment) (LSRD) Bill 2021 - importance of pre legislative scrutiny
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Victor Boyhan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}
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Environmental Pillar
September–December
[Environment] Peace Plus Programme funding
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'}
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Environmental Pillar
September–December
[Agriculture] Meeting Request
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Charlie McConalogue', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'}
🌾 Agriculture 🌍 Climate & Energy View on lobbying.ie →
Environmental Pillar
September–December
[Agriculture] Ireland's CAP Strategic Plan as it relates to nature and biodiversity, and how CAP must enable Ireland to deliver on its long-term sustainabilty, biodiversity and climate objectives
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Charlie McConalogue', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Paul Savage', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Martin Heydon', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Pippa Hackett', 'role': 'Super Junior Minister (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Stiofán Nutty', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Patrick Donohoe', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} + 2 more
🌾 Agriculture 🌍 Climate & Energy View on lobbying.ie →
Environmental Pillar
September–December
[Education and Training] Meeting request
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Norma Foley', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Education)'}
🌍 Climate & Energy 📚 Education View on lobbying.ie →
Environmental Pillar
September–December
[Environment] Requested update on Circular Economy Bill and the following issues: regulations regarding compostable packaging; fees in relation to unrecycled plastic packaging; requested update regarding Housing, Planning and Development Amendment Bill; carbon budgets and sectoral emissions ceilings; CETA and its impacts on access to justice; data centres policy; requested update on solar panels regulation; Shannon LNG and its environmental impacts; flood prevention policy in relation to the cl
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Darcy Lonergan', 'role': 'Councillor (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'John McDonald', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Paul Kenny', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}
🌍 Climate & Energy 🏦 Finance & Banking 🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Environmental Pillar
September–December
[Environment] Requested updates on Citizens Assembly on Biodiversity and Review of NPWS
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Hannah Hamilton', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'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': 'Paul Kenny', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'David Healy', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of the Taoiseach)'}
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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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