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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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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
May–August
[Children and Youth Affairs] Children's Rights in their Early Years and specifically the Early Years Strategy, the Single Affordable Childcare Scheme, child protection regulations, child minders and primary care for children in their early years.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Bernie McNally', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'} {'name': 'Harold Hislop', 'role': 'Chief Inspector (Department of Education and Skills)'} {'name': 'Kathleen Funchion', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
May–August
[Education and Training] Education equality for children in school admissions
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Richard Bruton', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Education and Skills)'} {'name': 'Martin Hanevy', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Education and Skills)'}
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
May–August
[Social Protection] Commitment under Better Outcomes, Brighter Futures, The National Policy Framework for Children and Young People relating to the child poverty reduction target
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Anne Vaughan', 'role': 'Deputy Secretary (Department of Social Protection)'} {'name': 'Kathleen Stack', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Social Protection)'} {'name': 'Fergal Lynch', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'} {'name': 'Éimear Fisher', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'}
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
May–August
[Children and Youth Affairs] Budget 2018
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Niamh O’Donoghue', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Social Protection)'} {'name': 'Regina Doherty', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Social Protection)'} {'name': 'Katherine Zappone', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'} {'name': 'Bernie McNally', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'} {'name': 'Patricia Ryan', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'} {'name': 'William Beausang', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'} + 29 more
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
May–August
[Social Protection] Gender Recognition (Amendment) Bill 2017
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Email All Senators', 'role': ''}
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
May–August
[Justice and Equality] Children and Family Relationships Act 2015
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Sarah Kavanagh', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
May–August
[Housing] Rebuilding Ireland, Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Eoghan Murphy', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government)'}
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
May–August
[Justice and Equality] Proposed restrictions to the Private Practitioner Scheme in the District Court for certain family law matters
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'John McDaid', 'role': 'Chief Executive Officer (The Legal Aid Board)'}
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
September–December
[Children and Youth Affairs] Funding to Childcare and quality measures
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Bernie McNally', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'} {'name': 'Katherine Zappone', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'} {'name': 'Patricia Ryan', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'}
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
September–December
[Children and Youth Affairs] Sent TDs the Children's Rights Alliance analysis of Budget 2018 for young children - seeking additional funding; seeking public funding to be spent directly into quality measures
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Kathleen Funchion', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Anne Rabbitte', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Alan Farrell', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Joan Freeman', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Seán Sherlock', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
September–December
[Children and Youth Affairs] Working Family Payment and Parental Leave and encouraging them to take action on the new family leave bill and to work with employers on these issues
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Frances Fitzgerald', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation)'} {'name': 'Declan Hughes', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation)'}
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
September–December
[Children and Youth Affairs] Held a briefing for Fianna Fail on Report Card 2017 recommendations
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Paul Daly', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Eamon Scanlon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'John Lahart', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Anne Rabbitte', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Kevin O'Keeffe", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Margaret Murphy O'Mahony", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 1 more
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
September–December
[Children and Youth Affairs] Direct Provision and the Guardian ad Lietem System
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Charles Flanagan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice and Equality)'}
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
September–December
[Children and Youth Affairs] Email to Senators in advance of the discussion on the Public Health Alcohol Bill
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Email All Senators', 'role': 'Sent on 18 October prior to debate on the Bill'} {'name': 'Patricia Ryan', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'}
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
September–December
[Children and Youth Affairs] Guardian ad Lietem reform
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Éimear Fisher', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'} {'name': 'Patricia Ryan', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'} {'name': 'Fergal Lynch', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'}
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
September–December
[Children and Youth Affairs] Direct Provision Payment
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Regina Doherty', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Social Protection)'} {'name': 'Charles Flanagan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice and Equality)'} {'name': 'David Stanton', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Justice and Equality)'}
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
September–December
[Children and Youth Affairs] Brexit
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Helen McEntee', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} {'name': 'Matt Carthy', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'} {'name': 'Mairead McGuinness', 'role': 'MEP (European Parliament)'}
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
January–April
[Children and Youth Affairs] Seeking fuller implementation of Articles 26 and 27 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child relating to the right of children to social security and the right to an adequate standard of living
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Anne Vaughan', 'role': 'Deputy Secretary (Department of Social Protection)'} {'name': 'Kathleen Stack', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Social Protection)'} {'name': 'Fergal Lynch', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'} {'name': 'Elizabeth Canavan', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'}
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
January–April
[Children and Youth Affairs] Seeking to influence the Programme For Government 2016-2021 on a range of issues for children and young people
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Robert Troy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Simon Harris', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 10 more
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
January–April
[Justice and Equality] The State's reservation under Article 10(2)(b) of the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Enda Kenny', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'}
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
January–April
[Social Protection] Request to consider increase in weekly allowance for children in the Direct Provision system
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Frances Fitzgerald', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice and Equality)'} {'name': 'Joan Burton', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of Social Protection)'} {'name': 'Aodhán Ó Ríordáin', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Justice and Equality)'}
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
January–April
[Children and Youth Affairs] Request to consider the extension of the remit of the Ombudsman for Children
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Frances Fitzgerald', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice and Equality)'}
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
January–April
[Children and Youth Affairs] In advance of the combined Third and Fourth Periodic Reviews of Ireland under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Children's Rights Alliance advocated for further implementation of the Convention in Ireland
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'James Reilly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'} {'name': 'Elizabeth Canavan', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'} {'name': 'Fergal Lynch', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'}
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
January–April
[Children and Youth Affairs] Implementation of Better Outcomes, Brighter Futures, The National Policy Framework for Children and Young People 2014-2020.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Elizabeth Canavan', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'}
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
January–April
[Children and Youth Affairs] Child Care Act 1991
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Elizabeth Canavan', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'} {'name': 'Fergal Lynch', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'}
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
January–April
[Children and Youth Affairs] In advance of the combined Third and Fourth Periodic Reviews of Ireland under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Children's Rights Alliance advocated for further implementation of the Convention in Ireland
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'James Reilly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'} {'name': 'Elizabeth Canavan', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'} {'name': 'Fergal Lynch', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'}
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
January–April
[Children and Youth Affairs] In advance of the combined Third and Fourth Periodic Reviews of Ireland under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Children's Rights Alliance advocated for further implementation of the Convention in Ireland
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'James Reilly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'} {'name': 'Elizabeth Canavan', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'} {'name': 'Fergal Lynch', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'}
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
May–August
[Justice and Equality] Implementation of the recommendations relating to children in the Final Report of the Working Group to Report to the Government on Improvements to the Protection Process, including Direct Provision and Supports to Asylum Seekers
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Carol Baxter', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Justice and Equality)'} {'name': 'Frances Fitzgerald', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice and Equality)'} {'name': 'David Stanton', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Justice and Equality)'} {'name': 'Aodhán Ó Ríordáin', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Justice and Equality)'}
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
May–August
[Education and Training] Letter on the Education Strategy
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Richard Bruton', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Education and Skills)'}
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE - REPUBLIC OF IRELAND LIMITED
May–August
[Children and Youth Affairs] Implementation of Better Outcomes, Brighter Futures , the National Policy Framework for Children and Young people
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Fergal Lynch', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'} {'name': 'Patricia Ryan', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Elizabeth Canavan', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Children and Youth Affairs)'}
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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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