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Registered Lobbyists
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Irish Congress of Trade Unions
January–April
[EU Affairs] EU Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Peter Burke', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'} {'name': 'Thomas Byrne', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Foreign Affairs)'}
Saint John of God Community Services Limited
January–April
[Finance] Lobbying for adequate funding for housing and respite
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Michael Healy-Rae', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Jennifer Carroll MacNeill', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Richard Boyd Barrett', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Cormac Devlin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Bernard Gloster', 'role': 'Chief Executive Officer (Health Service Executive)'}
Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation
January–April
[Health] The unsafe approach to workforce planning by the HSE nationally resulting in growing health and safety concerns due to inadequate staffing and additional workloads
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Bernard Gloster', 'role': 'Chief Executive Officer (Health Service Executive)'} {'name': 'Anne Marie Hoey', 'role': 'Chief People Officer (Health Service Executive)'} {'name': 'Dr Andy Phillips', 'role': 'Regional Executive Officer (Health Service Executive)'} {'name': 'Kate Killeen White', 'role': 'Regional Executive Officer (Health Service Executive)'} {'name': 'Martina Queally', 'role': 'Regional Executive Officer (Health Service Executive)'} {'name': 'Sandra Broderick', 'role': 'Regional Executive Officer (Health Service Executive)'} + 2 more
County Carlow Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Tourism CLG
January–April
[Economic Development and Industry] The continued rising costs of doing business for SME's in Ireland - and the challenges of lack of adequate infrastructure and housing - discussion at the launch of Hacketstown Enterprise Hub 5/3/25
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Catherine Callaghan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Natasha Newsome Drennan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
Clare Youth Service
January–April
[Children and Youth Affairs] Issue impacting young people including the lack of a Community based Mental Health Service in Clare, Alternative Formal Education Options, inadequate resources to fund staffing, programmes and capital buildings - refurbishment and development.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Timmy Dooley', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Cathal Crowe', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Joe Cooney', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Donna McGettigan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
Cheshire Ireland
January–April
[Health] Contact to try to push engagement with the HSE in relation to inadequate funding for a section 39 organisation
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Robert Watt', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Health)'}
Cavanagh Communications
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
May–August
[Health] 26/8/2025 – Irish Lung Fibrosis Association: Issue of news release ‘Lung Fibrosis Community meet Minister to highlight inadequate care’ to all TDs and Senators.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': "ILFA news release 'Lung Fibrosis Community meet Minister to highlight inadequate care’ emailed to all TDs and Senators in support of a meeting with Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill."} {'name': 'Jennifer Carroll MacNeill', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'}
COPE Galway CLG
May–August
[Finance] Budget 2026, calling for targeted, adequately resourced, and structurally transformative policies to address pressing social challenges including in the areas of housing, homelessness including youth homelessness, women and children subjected to domestic abuse, older people, poverty eradication, and supports to the Community and Voluntary Sector.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jack Chambers', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform)'} {'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Mairéad Farrell', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Catherine Connolly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Noel Grealish', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Hildegarde Naughton', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 19 more
Ibec
May–August
[Employment] Adequate Minimum Wage Directive
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Yvonne White', 'role': 'Assistant Secretaries or Equivalent Grades (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'}
IRD Duhallow
May–August
[Public Expenditure and Reform] The long-term future of LEADER is secured retaining its identity & its methodology, both of which centre on community-led rural development. It must also be adequately resourced: crucially, the obligation for Member States to allocate a defined portion of their overall funding to LEADER must be maintained, along with clear commitments on the level of national co-funding each Member State will provide.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Michael Healy-Rae', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Nicole Ryan', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}
Fórsa trade union
May–August
[Employment] Letter from Keven Callinan, Fórsa General Secretary to Minister for Enterprise, Tourism & Employment. The letter urges the Minister to ensure Ireland’s upcoming national action plan on collective bargaining is worker-focused by incorporating Fórsa’s proposals, including ratification of ILO conventions, stronger legal rights for collective bargaining and union activity, and conditionality on public funding and contracts to promote compliance with the Adequate Minimum Wage Directive.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Peter Burke', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'}
Chambers Ireland
May–August
[Children and Youth Affairs] To highlight the recommendations of the Chambers Ireland pre-Budget, including increasing core funding for childcare providers, especially small and medium-sized providers, to ensure an adequate supply of childcare places nationwide.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': '6-10'} {'name': 'Ken Spratt', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Transport)'} {'name': 'David Moloney', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform)'} {'name': 'John Hogan', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Declan Hughes', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'} {'name': 'Graham Doyle', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'}
Chambers Ireland
May–August
[Finance] To highlight the recommendations of the Chambers Ireland pre-Budget, including reforming disability supports for employers and employees and implementing a programme to ensure that adequate training, financial supports and operational supports are accessible.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': ''} {'name': 'Declan Hughes', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'} {'name': 'Graham Doyle', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} {'name': 'John Hogan', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'David Moloney', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform)'} {'name': 'Ken Spratt', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Transport)'}
Chambers Ireland
May–August
[Employment] To highlight the recommendations of the Chambers Ireland pre-Budget, including reforming disability supports for employers and employees and implementing a programme to ensure that adequate training, financial supports and operational supports are accessible.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Email All Oireachtas Members', 'role': ''} {'name': 'Ken Spratt', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Transport)'} {'name': 'David Moloney', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform)'} {'name': 'John Hogan', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Declan Hughes', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'} {'name': 'Graham Doyle', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'}
Pontis Advisory Limited
May–August
[Budgetary matters] The need for adequate capital grant resourcing for high growth potential entrepreneurial projects
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Dara Calleary', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Social Protection)'}
Pontis Advisory Limited
on behalf of Yes (client not named)
May–August
[Budgetary matters] The need for adequate capital grant resourcing for high growth potential entrepreneurial projects
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Noel Grealish', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine)'} {'name': 'Deirdre Gillane', 'role': 'Chief of Staff (Department of the Taoiseach)'} {'name': 'Dara Calleary', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Social Protection)'} {'name': 'Niamh Smyth', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'} {'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform)'} {'name': 'Jack Chambers', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} + 4 more
The Union of Retail ,Bar and Administrative Workers
May–August
[Employment] EU Directive on Adequate Minimum Wage
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': 'An Email was sent 19 Aug 2025 from the office of Mandate Interim General Secretary Jim Fuery, to TDs listed. Awaiting response at time of input.'} {'name': 'Jack Chambers', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform)'} {'name': 'Helen McEntee', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Education)'} {'name': "Darragh O'Brien", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment)'} {'name': 'Norma Foley', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth)'} {'name': 'James Browne', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)'} + 5 more
Unite the Union, Ireland Region
May–August
[Employment] Adequate Minimum Wage Directive
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Peter Burke', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'}
HUGG Healing Untold Grief Groups Company Limited by Guarantee
May–August
[Health] Pre-Budget 2026 Submission – Prioritising Suicide Postvention Services in National Mental Health Policy. Appeal for the continued prioritisation and adequate funding of suicide postvention services as a cornerstone of Ireland’s mental health strategy
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Mary Butler', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'}
Irish Medical Organisation
May–August
[Employment] section 4 of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive regarding the promotion of Collective Bargaining
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Peter Burke', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'}
Ibec
September–December
[Employment] Adequate Minimum Wage Directive - Action Plan on Collective Bargaining
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Declan Hughes', 'role': 'Secretary General (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'} {'name': 'Yvonne White', 'role': 'Assistant Secretaries or Equivalent Grades (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'}
The Union of Retail ,Bar and Administrative Workers
September–December
[Employment] The Transposition of the EU Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Letter All TDs', 'role': 'Letters sent 16 Sept 2025 from Mandate Officials Greg Caffrey and Ken Reilly to TDs listed seeking meeting and support for the Directive.'} {'name': 'Email All TDs', 'role': 'Email sent 18 Sept 2025 from Mandate Officials Greg Caffrey and Ken Reilly to TDs listed seeking meeting and support for the Directive.'} {'name': "Jennifer Murnane O'Connor", 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Paul Donnelly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Rory Hearne', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Paul McAuliffe', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 14 more
COPE Galway CLG
September–December
[Finance] Budget 2026, calling for targeted, adequately resourced, and structurally transformative policies to address pressing social challenges including in the areas of housing, homelessness including youth homelessness, women and children subjected to domestic abuse, older people, poverty eradication, and supports to the Community and Voluntary Sector.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Peter Roche', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Albert Dolan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Louis O'Hara", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Seán Canney', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Seán Kyne', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Ollie Crowe', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} + 1 more
Irish Congress of Trade Unions
September–December
[Employment] Irish Government Action Plan on Adequate Minimum Wages Directive
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': "Joe O'Reilly", 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Alice-Mary Higgins', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Jennifer Whitmore', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Patricia Stephenson', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}
Saint John of God Community Services Limited
September–December
[Finance] Trying to increase funding for housing and to resolve reduced respite and trying to lobby for adequate funding
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Letter All TDs', 'role': 'Letters and emails were sent to families to contact their local TDs /B Gloster seeking a meeting'}
Chambers Ireland
September–December
[Children and Youth Affairs] To highlight the recommendations of the Chambers Ireland pre-Budget, including increasing core funding for childcare providers, especially small and medium-sized providers, to ensure an adequate supply of childcare places nationwide.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Meeting All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'https://chambers.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2026-PBS-FINAL.pdf \n\nhttps://chambers.ie/press-releases/chambers-ireland-responds-to-budget-2026-a-budget-of-two-halves/ \n\nhttps://chambers.ie/press-releases/chambers-ireland-to-meet-ministers-on-urgent-infrastructure-reform/'} {'name': 'Submission All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'https://chambers.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2026-PBS-FINAL.pdf \nhttps://chambers.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2026-PBS-FINAL.pdf \n\nhttps://chambers.ie/press-releases/chambers-ireland-responds-to-budget-2026-a-budget-of-two-halves/ \n\nhttps://chambers.ie/press-releases/chambers-ireland-to-meet-ministers-on-urgent-infrastructure-reform/'} {'name': 'Lobby day All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'https://chambers.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2026-PBS-FINAL.pdf \n\nhttps://chambers.ie/press-releases/chambers-ireland-responds-to-budget-2026-a-budget-of-two-halves/ \n\nhttps://chambers.ie/press-releases/chambers-ireland-to-meet-ministers-on-urgent-infrastructure-reform/'}
Chambers Ireland
September–December
[Finance] To highlight the recommendations of the Chambers Ireland pre-Budget, including reforming disability supports for employers and employees and implementing a programme to ensure that adequate training, financial supports and operational supports are accessible.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Meeting All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'https://chambers.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2026-PBS-FINAL.pdf \n\nhttps://chambers.ie/press-releases/chambers-ireland-responds-to-budget-2026-a-budget-of-two-halves/ \n\nhttps://chambers.ie/press-releases/chambers-ireland-to-meet-ministers-on-urgent-infrastructure-reform/'} {'name': 'Submission All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'https://chambers.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2026-PBS-FINAL.pdf \nhttps://chambers.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2026-PBS-FINAL.pdf \n\nhttps://chambers.ie/press-releases/chambers-ireland-responds-to-budget-2026-a-budget-of-two-halves/ \n\nhttps://chambers.ie/press-releases/chambers-ireland-to-meet-ministers-on-urgent-infrastructure-reform/'} {'name': 'Lobby day All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'https://chambers.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2026-PBS-FINAL.pdf \n\nhttps://chambers.ie/press-releases/chambers-ireland-responds-to-budget-2026-a-budget-of-two-halves/ \n\nhttps://chambers.ie/press-releases/chambers-ireland-to-meet-ministers-on-urgent-infrastructure-reform/'}
Chambers Ireland
September–December
[Employment] To highlight the recommendations of the Chambers Ireland pre-Budget, including reforming disability supports for employers and employees and implementing a programme to ensure that adequate training, financial supports and operational supports are accessible.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Meeting All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'https://chambers.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2026-PBS-FINAL.pdf \n\nhttps://chambers.ie/press-releases/chambers-ireland-responds-to-budget-2026-a-budget-of-two-halves/ \n\nhttps://chambers.ie/press-releases/chambers-ireland-to-meet-ministers-on-urgent-infrastructure-reform/'} {'name': 'Submission All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'https://chambers.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2026-PBS-FINAL.pdf \nhttps://chambers.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2026-PBS-FINAL.pdf \n\nhttps://chambers.ie/press-releases/chambers-ireland-responds-to-budget-2026-a-budget-of-two-halves/ \n\nhttps://chambers.ie/press-releases/chambers-ireland-to-meet-ministers-on-urgent-infrastructure-reform/'} {'name': 'Lobby day All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'https://chambers.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2026-PBS-FINAL.pdf \n\nhttps://chambers.ie/press-releases/chambers-ireland-responds-to-budget-2026-a-budget-of-two-halves/ \n\nhttps://chambers.ie/press-releases/chambers-ireland-to-meet-ministers-on-urgent-infrastructure-reform/'}
Macra na Feirme
September–December
[Agriculture] Opposition to Mercosur Trade deal due to negative impact on agriculture, inadequate safe guards and food safety concerns
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Letter All Oireachtas Members', 'role': 'Letter to Oireachtas Members'}
Irish Congress of Trade Unions
January–April
[Employment] Adequate Minimum Wages Directive
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Simon Harris', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Neale Richmond', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'} {'name': 'Simon Coveney', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment)'} {'name': "Louise O'Reilly", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Richard Bruton', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 5 more
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