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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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Lobbying Returns
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Registered Lobbyists
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Financial Services Union
May–August
[Banking and Financial Institutions] banking forum, hybrid working, variable pay, outsourcing of roles, Artificial intellingence in the financial services sector
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Malcolm Byrne', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Financial Services Union
September–December
[Banking and Financial Institutions] future of banking, banking forum, AI, outsourcing of roles,
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Laura Harmon', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'George Lawlor', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Ged Nash', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Financial Services Union
January–April
[Banking and Financial Institutions] banking matters, access to cash, bank branches
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Financial Services Union
September–December
[Finance] future of banking, reestablishing the banking forum
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Oliver Gilvarry', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Finance)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Financial Services Union
January–April
[Taxation] tax treatment of union investments
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Timmy Hennessey', 'role': 'Head of Unit (Department of Finance)'}
🏢 Enterprise & Employment 🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Financial Services Union
January–April
[Finance] banking matters
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Financial Services Union
May–August
[Finance] banking matters
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Oliver Gilvarry', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Finance)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Financial Services Union
January–April
[Banking and Financial Institutions] Banking review and exit of ulster bank and KBC
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Des Carville', 'role': 'Head of Unit (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Sean Fleming', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Oliver Gilvarry', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Pearse Doherty', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Ged Nash', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Financial Services Union
May–August
[Banking and Financial Institutions] Banking review and exit of ulster bank and KBC
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Sean Fleming', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Oliver Gilvarry', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Finance)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Financial Services Union
September–December
[Banking and Financial Institutions] banking review, exit of KBC and Ulster Bank, and pay transparency
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': "Roderic O'Gorman", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth)'} {'name': 'Pearse Doherty', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Ged Nash', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Oliver Gilvarry', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Finance)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Financial Services Union
January–April
[Banking and Financial Institutions] Establishment of a Banking Forum
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)'} {'name': 'Sean Fleming', 'role': 'Minister of State (Department of Finance)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Financial Services Union
May–August
[Banking and Financial Institutions] Establishment of a Banking Forum
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Financial Services Union
May–August
[Justice and Equality] Gender Pay Bill
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': "Roderic O'Gorman", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth)'}
⚖️ Justice & Legal View on lobbying.ie →
Financial Services Union
September–December
[Banking and Financial Institutions] Tax credit for the game sector
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Neasa Hourigan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Financial Services Union
January–April
[Employment] Workers rights issues affecting union members
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Joan Collins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🏢 Enterprise & Employment View on lobbying.ie →
Financial Services Union
January–April
[Employment] Letter to all TDs calling for right to disconnet to be prioritised in new Dail
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Letter All TDs', 'role': 'Letter to all TDs calling for right to disconnet to be prioritised in new Dail, on March 3rd 2020.'} {'name': 'Richard Bruton', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Joan Collins', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Barry Cowen', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Joe Carey', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Seán Crowe', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 9 more
🏢 Enterprise & Employment View on lobbying.ie →
Financial Services Union
January–April
[Employment] Letter sent to all TDs prior to General election on FSU agenda
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Letter All TDs', 'role': 'Letter set out FSU priorities prior to the February General election-the right to disconnect, bank branch closures and gender pay reporting.'}
🏢 Enterprise & Employment View on lobbying.ie →
Financial Services Union
January–April
[Employment] Letter to TDS taking part in discussions on entering Government
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Patrick Costello', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Catherine Martin', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Neasa Hourigan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Steven Matthews', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Malcolm Noonan', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 12 more
🏢 Enterprise & Employment 🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Financial Services Union
May–August
[Employment] Future of bank branches
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Marie Sherlock', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'}
🏢 Enterprise & Employment 🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Financial Services Union
May–August
[Employment] Bank branches
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': "Louise O'Reilly", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Ged Nash', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Róisín Shorthall', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🏢 Enterprise & Employment 🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Financial Services Union
May–August
[Employment] Letter regarding the wearing of facemasks in branches
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Health)'} {'name': 'Stephen Donnelly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Ged Nash', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Louise O'Reilly", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🏢 Enterprise & Employment View on lobbying.ie →
Financial Services Union
May–August
[Employment] Future of Bank of Ireland
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Micheál Martin', 'role': 'An Taoiseach (Department of the Taoiseach)'}
🏢 Enterprise & Employment 🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Financial Services Union
May–August
[Employment] Letter to an Tanaiste regarding matters related to working from home
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'An Tánaiste (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🏢 Enterprise & Employment View on lobbying.ie →
Financial Services Union
September–December
[Finance] Banking issues including ulster bank exit from Republic of Ireland and central bank code of conduct
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'} {'name': 'Leo Varadkar', 'role': 'An Tánaiste (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Financial Services Union
January–April
[Finance] Meeting with Conor McCabe, Assistant to David Culinane TD, on legislation affecting collective bargaining.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'David Cullinane', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Financial Services Union
January–April
[Finance] Email to DPO's requesting them to circulate to their supporters and on social media a survey the FSU were carrying out ro gain insight into the terns and conditions of people working in the Financial Services Sector
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'David Cullinane', 'role': 'Senator (Seanad)'} {'name': 'Mary Lou McDonald', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Pearse Doherty', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Paul Murphy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Clare Daly', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} + 3 more
🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Financial Services Union
May–August
[Finance] Meeting with Michael McGrath TD and assitant Grant Sweetman
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Financial Services Union
May–August
[Finance] Email and phone contact with political parties in Leinster House on future ownership of AIB.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Paul Murphy', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': 'Richard Boyd Barrett', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'} {'name': "Fergus O'Dowd", 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Financial Services Union
May–August
[Banking and Financial Institutions] Letter to Minister for Finance, Pascal Donoghue TD , on the future ownership of AIB
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Paschal Donohoe', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'}
🏦 Finance & Banking View on lobbying.ie →
Financial Services Union
May–August
[Social Protection] Letter Minister Heather Humphries TD seeking a french style "right to disconnect" law in Ireland.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Heather Humphreys', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation)'}
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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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