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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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CyberSafeIreland
January–April
[Children and Youth Affairs] Children's online safety
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jennifer Carroll MacNeill', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'} {'name': "Jim O'Callaghan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Helen McEntee', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Education)'} {'name': "Darren O'Rourke", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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CyberSafeIreland
May–August
[Children and Youth Affairs] Children's online safety
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jennifer Carroll MacNeill', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'} {'name': "Jim O'Callaghan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Helen McEntee', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Education)'} {'name': "Darren O'Rourke", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Simon Harris', 'role': 'Tánaiste and Minister (Department of Foreign Affairs)'} + 17 more
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CyberSafeIreland
September–December
[Health] We organised a screening of the documentary 'Can't Look Away' for Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill and her constituency team as she'd not been able to attend a previous screening event in June. We also met Minister Patrick O'Donovan as part of a Children's Rights Alliance led team in relation to minimum age limits on social media, gaming and video sharing platforms..
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jennifer Carroll MacNeill', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'} {'name': "Patrick O'Donovan", 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media)'}
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CyberSafeIreland
May–August
[Children and Youth Affairs] Children's online safety
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Norma Foley', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Education)'} {'name': 'Mary Lou McDonald', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Holly Cairns', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Richard Boyd Barrett', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 19 more
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CyberSafeIreland
January–April
[Education and Training] Promoting the need to better protect and support children online
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Malcolm Byrne', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Emer Higgins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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CyberSafeIreland
September–December
[Children and Youth Affairs] Children's online safety
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Norma Foley', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Education)'} {'name': 'Mary Lou McDonald', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Holly Cairns', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Richard Boyd Barrett', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 27 more
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CyberSafeIreland
January–April
[Education and Training] Introduce the CyberSafe Tool for Schools and other areas of CyberSafeKids' work including our annual report data
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Norma Foley', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Education)'}
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CyberSafeIreland
May–August
[Education and Training] Promoting the need to protect and support children online
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jennifer Carroll MacNeill', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Norma Foley', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Education)'} {'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Josepha Madigan', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Education)'}
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CyberSafeIreland
September–December
[Education and Training] Promoting the need to protect and support children online
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jennifer Carroll MacNeill', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Norma Foley', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Education)'} {'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'} + 6 more
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CyberSafeIreland
January–April
[Education and Training] Introduce the CyberSafe Tool for Schools
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Josepha Madigan', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Education)'}
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CyberSafeIreland
May–August
[Education and Training] Introduce the CyberSafe Tool for Schools and other areas of CyberSafeKids' work including our annual report data
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': "James O'Connor", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Catherine Martin', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media)'} {'name': 'Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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CyberSafeIreland
September–December
[Education and Training] Discuss findings from our latest annual report, and other updates on our work, and the Online Safety Media Regulation Bill
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Niamh Smyth', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Anne Rabbitte', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth)'} {'name': 'Jennifer Carroll MacNeill', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'James Browne', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Justice)'} {'name': 'Norma Foley', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Education)'} {'name': 'Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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CyberSafeIreland
January–April
[Justice and Equality] Garda vetting
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Helen McEntee', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice)'} {'name': 'Jennifer Carroll MacNeill', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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CyberSafeIreland
January–April
[Children and Youth Affairs] Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Niamh Smyth', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Fintan Warfield', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Imelda Munster', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Ciaran Cannon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Alan Dillon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Peter Fitzpatrick', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 8 more
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CyberSafeIreland
May–August
[Children and Youth Affairs] Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Fintan Warfield', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Alan Dillon', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Johnny Mythen', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Malcolm Byrne', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Annie Hoey', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': "Jim O'Callaghan", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 3 more
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CyberSafeIreland
September–December
[Children and Youth Affairs] Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Malcolm Byrne', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Catherine Martin', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media)'} {'name': 'Niamh Smyth', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Jennifer Carroll MacNeill', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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CyberSafeIreland
January–April
[Education and Training] CyberSafeIreland has provided internet safety policy suggestions for the various party election manifestos in advance of the next election and, in collaboration with the Children's Rights Alliance and others has produced a 'joint ask' for the next Programme for Government
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Mary Mitchell O'Connor", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Anne Rabbitte', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Joe McHugh', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Education and Skills)'} {'name': 'Richard Bruton', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} + 18 more
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CyberSafeIreland
May–August
[Communications] A representative of CyberSafeIreland attended a virtual workshop on the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill Workshop in June to provide feedback on the bill (on the regulatory framework for online Safety)
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Richard Bruton', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}
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CyberSafeIreland
September–December
[Education and Training] Garda vetting
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jennifer Carroll MacNeill', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
📚 Education ⚖️ Justice & Legal View on lobbying.ie →
CyberSafeIreland
September–December
[Education and Training] Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Catherine Martin', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media)'}
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CyberSafeIreland
May–August
[Education and Training] CyberSafeIreland has provided internet safety policy suggestions for the various party election manifestos in advance of the next election
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Patrick Cluskey', 'role': 'Special Adviser (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Thomas Pringle', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Ivana Bacik', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Richard Boyd Barrett', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Mary Mitchell O'Connor", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 2 more
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CyberSafeIreland
September–December
[Education and Training] Invitation to attend and speak at Annual Report Launch
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': "Mary Mitchell O'Connor", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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CyberSafeIreland
January–April
[Communications] Action Plan on Internet Safety
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Denis Naughten', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}
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CyberSafeIreland
May–August
[Education and Training] Annual report launch
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Seán Kyne', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Alan Farrell', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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CyberSafeIreland
May–August
[Education and Training] Annual report launch
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Seán Kyne', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'} {'name': 'Alan Farrell', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Mary Mitchell O'Connor", 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Education and Skills)'}
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CyberSafeIreland
January–April
[Education and Training] We met Minister Helen McEntee on Thursday 2nd February to introduce our internet safety initiative with her as there are many mental health implications for children accessing technology from a young age.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Helen McEntee', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}
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CyberSafeIreland
May–August
[Children and Youth Affairs] I met Deputy Jim Daly at the Children's Rights Alliance AGM on 9th May and he mentioned a draft bill entitled Internet Access for Minors Bill 2017 he was working on during a discussion we had on children's use of the Internet. His assistant then shared a copy of it with me via email and CyberSafeIreland issued a comment on it to the media when it was published the following day (10th May).
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jim Daly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
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CyberSafeIreland
September–December
[Communications] Email to Minister Denis Naughten
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Denis Naughten', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Environment, Climate and Communications)'}
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CyberSafeIreland
September–December
[Education and Training] Online safety for children
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jim Daly', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}
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Most Lobbied TDs

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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