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Lobbying Tracker

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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Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Emailed TD's and Senators regarding the outcome of Threshold's latest campaign and shared report.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Joan Collins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Alice-Mary Higgins', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Thomas Pringle', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Marian Harkin', '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)'} + 7 more
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Email to the DPO regarding a public campaign on deposit retention in the private rental sector
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Kevin Dillon', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Emailed the DPO to ask for an update on any recent changes to the HAP debt process.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Caroline Timmons', 'role': 'Acting Assistant Secretary (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
September–December
[Tourism] Met with MEP to discuss the regulation of short-term letting.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Barry Andrews', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}
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Threshold
September–December
[EU Affairs] Spoke to the DPO about Threshold's proposed engagement with the European Commission regarding the regulation of short-term lets.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': "Darragh O'Brien", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'}
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Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Asked TD to submit a Parliamentary Question
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Violet Anne Wynne', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Emailed the DPOs regarding Threshold's Deposit Protection Scheme campaign.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Francis Noel Duffy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Cian O'Callaghan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Ivana Bacik', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Richard Boyd Barrett', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Emer Higgins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Mary Fitzpatrick', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} + 7 more
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Sent Thresholds Pre-Budget Submission to the DPOs.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} {'name': "Darragh O'Brien", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'John Hogan', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Kevin Dillon', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'Feargal Ó Coigligh', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking 🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Irish Hospital Consultants Association
September–December
[Taxation] Submission on the Standard Fund Threshold System and Chargeable Excess Tax
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Michael J. McGrath', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform)'} {'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of the Taoiseach)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking 🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Engage with the DPO on the number of tenancy terminations and pressure on emergency accommodation.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': "Darragh O'Brien", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'Feargal Ó Coigligh', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'Kevin Dillon', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'Ciara Shaughnessy', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Email to the DPO regarding the Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': "Darragh O'Brien", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'Kevin Dillon', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'Ciara Shaughnessy', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'Eoin Ó Broin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Cian O'Callaghan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Rebecca Moynihan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} + 13 more
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Meeting with the DPO to make them aware of issues being experienced by Threshold's clients.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Kevin Dillon', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Email to the Deputy
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Violet Anne Wynne', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Steven Matthews', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
January–April
[Housing] Meeting with Special Adviser
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Kevin Dillon', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
College of Psychiatrists of Ireland
January–April
[Health] Letter re EGM held around concerns on latest draft of proposed legislative revisions to Mental Health Act 2001 and that it is believed will prevent timely access to treatment and care for those very unwell and require treatment for their recovery & dignity & before they are at risk of causing harm to themselves or anyone else.That the threshold for enabling people who need treatment under the Act is now too high in proposed revised text & the consequences of that for those vulnerable pe
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Seán Crowe', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🏥 Health 🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
College of Psychiatrists of Ireland
January–April
[Health] Inform Office of Attorney General, Minister Butler and DoH personnel of College EGM held around concerns of the latest draft of the general scheme to revise the Mental Health Act 2001 & unintended consequences the revised threshold for treatment under the Act will have for those very unwell. Also to inform her of a College member survey on current proposed revisions and consultative process on same.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Damien Moloney', 'role': 'Director General (The Office of the Attorney General)'}
📚 Education 🏥 Health 🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
January–April
[Housing] Meeting with the Special Advisor
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Kevin Dillon', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
January–April
[Housing] Attended a virtual meeting with a number of organisations regarding refugees from Ukraine
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Ciara Shaughnessy', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'Alex Connolly', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'Tom Sheppard', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
January–April
[Housing] Presentations to Strategic Policy Committee meetings.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Joe Byrne', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway County Council)'} {'name': 'Tim Broderick', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway County Council)'} {'name': 'James Charity', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway County Council)'} {'name': 'Colm Keaveney', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway County Council)'} {'name': 'Eileen Mannion', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway County Council)'} {'name': 'Jimmy McClearn', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway County Council)'} + 16 more
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Irish Kidney Association
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
January–April
[Health] “To ask the Minister for Social protection what payment (s) prevent an individual under the means test threshold of receiving the fuel allowance and to ask if she will make a statement on the matter”
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Emer Higgins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🏥 Health View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
January–April
[Housing] Meeting with Housing Minister to update him on Threshold policies and operations
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': "Darragh O'Brien", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
January–April
[Housing] Meetings of the National Homeless Action Committee
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': "Darragh O'Brien", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'Caroline Timmons', 'role': 'Acting Assistant Secretary (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'Ben Ryan', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Justice)'} {'name': 'Mary Hayes', 'role': 'Director of Services or Equivalent (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Pat Daly', 'role': 'Chief Executive Officer (Limerick City and County Council)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
January–April
[Housing] Input at the Housing Agency Advisory Panel
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Ivan Grimes', 'role': 'Director of Services or Equivalent (Waterford City and County Council)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
May–August
[Housing] Met with the Deputy
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': "Cian O'Callaghan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Nursing Homes Ireland
May–August
[Gaeltacht] NHI wrote to Minister Butler acknowledging the continuation of the outbreak assistance scheme but did say that it is important to realise staffing pressures remain intensive for nursing homes in managing outbreaks. In this regard, it is disappointing the threshold to support the significantly increased staffing costs has been reduced.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}
🏥 Health View on lobbying.ie →
European Electronics Recyclers Association - EERA
May–August
[Environment] We sent EERA’s position paper on POPs thresholds in recycled plastics
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Maria Walsh', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Frances Fitzgerald', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Mick Wallace', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': "Grace O'Sullivan", 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Colm Markey', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Chris MacManus', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} + 7 more
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Threshold
September–December
[Housing] National Homeless Action Committee
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': "Darragh O'Brien", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'Mary Hayes', 'role': 'Director of Services or Equivalent (Dublin City Council)'} {'name': 'Graham Doyle', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
September–December
[Housing] Emailed Threshold's pre-budget submission document to the DPO
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': "Darragh O'Brien", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'Kevin Dillon', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'Graham Doyle', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'Caroline Timmons', 'role': 'Acting Assistant Secretary (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking 🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
May–August
[Housing] Minister launched Threshold research report
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': "Darragh O'Brien", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'Ciara Shaughnessy', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'}
🏠 Housing View on lobbying.ie →
Threshold
May–August
[Housing] Meeting with the Special Advisor
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Kevin Dillon', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'}
🏠 Housing 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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