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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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Galway City Community Network
January–April
[Housing] GCCN representative, Karen Golden, sent a document to all Social Development SPC members including City Cllrs regarding the annual programme. The document was seeking clarification, relating to the standing orders, on which of the work programme items fell under the following headings: policy formulation; policy development; policy monitoring; and policy review.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Aisling Burke', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Declan McDonnell', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'John McDonagh', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Niall McNelis', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': "Terry O'Flaherty", 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Helen Uchechukwu Ogbu', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'}
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Galway City Community Network
May–August
[Justice and Equality] An email was sent to both the Minister for Justice and the Minister for Rural and Community Development seeking clarification on the PPN seats on the Local Community Safety Partnerships.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': "Jim O'Callaghan", 'role': 'Minister (Department of Justice)'} {'name': 'Dara Calleary', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Rural and Community Development)'}
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Galway City Community Network
May–August
[Community] GCCN staff spoke to and invited current and prospective City Councillors to a "Meet the candidates" event ahead of the local elections.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Aisling Burke', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Alan Cheevers', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Alan Curran', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Clodagh Higgins', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Declan McDonnell', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Donal Lyons', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} + 14 more
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Galway City Community Network
May–August
[Community] GCCN staff lobbied a number of City Councillors regarding the new SPC scheme.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Alan Curran', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Eibhlín Seoighthe', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'John McDonagh', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Niall McNelis', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Helen Uchechukwu Ogbu', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'}
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Galway City Community Network
January–April
[Education and Training] A member of staff lobbied three city councilors regarding funding for a community support group assisting in bringing a refugee to Ireland to study at University of Galway.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Niall Murphy', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': "Martina O'Connor", 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Colette Connolly', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'}
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Galway City Community Network
May–August
[Education and Training] A member of staff was in contact with a City Councillor about funding for a community support group with NASC and University of Sanctuary Galway to support two refugees from Nigeria attend university here in Galway.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Niall Murphy', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'}
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Galway City Community Network
January–April
[Community] Implementation of national Transport policy implemented locally
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Ethna Brogan', 'role': 'Acting Assistant Secretary (Department of Transport)'}
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Galway City Community Network
May–August
[Local Government] GCCN has been in contact with one Cllr., member of the Galway City SDGs Working Group, regarding the development of submissions around Galway City Development Plan, LECP and the National SDG Implementation Plan
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Owen Hanley', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'}
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Galway City Community Network
January–April
[Community] GCCN continued to lobby the Chairpersons of the Galway City Planning SPC and Transportation SPC and Directors of Services calling for more participative ways of working and seeking the inclusion of relevant issues on the agendas. The GCCN representatives withdrew from the SPCs as a result on inaction and are now engaged in a mediation process with Galway City Council to identify more effective ways of working.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Peter Keane', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Eddie Hoare', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Brian Barrett', 'role': 'Director of Services or Equivalent (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Ruth McNally', 'role': 'Director of Services or Equivalent (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Brendan McGrath', 'role': 'CEO (Galway City Council)'}
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Galway City Community Network
January–April
[Community] GCCN engaged with Galway City Council in relation to the RE-imagining our Outdoor Spaces Fund
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Brian Barrett', 'role': 'Director of Services or Equivalent (Galway City Council)'}
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Galway City Community Network
January–April
[Community] GCCN sought information on Active Travel posts and guidance issued to Local Authorities
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Eamon Ryan', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Transport)'} {'name': 'Niall Murphy', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'}
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Galway City Community Network
May–August
[Community] GCCN organised a workshop with Galway City Councillors on the subject of the Sustainable Development Goals to support them to use the SDGs in drafting the new City Development Plan
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Billy Cameron', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Ollie Crowe', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Michael John Crowe', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Mike Cubbard', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Frank Fahy', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Peter Keane', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} + 13 more
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Galway City Community Network
May–August
[Community] GCCN organised a workshop with Galway City Councillors on the subject the City Development Plan
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Billy Cameron', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Ollie Crowe', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Michael John Crowe', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Mike Cubbard', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Frank Fahy', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Peter Keane', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} + 13 more
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Galway City Community Network
September–December
[Community] Implementation of national Transport policy implemented locally
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Ethna Brogan', 'role': 'Acting Assistant Secretary (Department of Transport)'}
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Galway City Community Network
January–April
[Community] GCCN continues to participate in a consortium of organisations that is monitoring equality issues with Galway City Council based on the Equality Votes Galway Manifesto
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Ollie Crowe', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Michael John Crowe', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Mike Cubbard', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Frank Fahy', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Pearce Flannery', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Peter Keane', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} + 11 more
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Galway City Community Network
May–August
[Community] GCCN wrote to the chairs of the Galway City Planning SPC and Transportation SPC calling for more participative ways of working and seeking the inclusion of relevant issues on the agendas
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Peter Keane', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Eddie Hoare', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'}
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Galway City Community Network
May–August
[Community] GCCN wrote to Galway City Council urging the return of local democratic structures including the Galway City Local Community Development Committee, the Strategic Policy Committees and the Joint Policing Committee, which had been deferred during the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. GCCN also called for responses to the COVID-19 pandemic to be prioritized as a work area for each structure
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Ollie Crowe', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Frank Fahy', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Mike Cubbard', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Peter Keane', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Noel Larkin', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Declan McDonnell', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} + 10 more
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Galway City Community Network
May–August
[Community] GCCN wrote to all Galway City Councillors to remind them of their obligations under the Public Sector Duty
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Ollie Crowe', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Mike Cubbard', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Mairead Farrell', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Frank Fahy', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Noel Larkin', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Declan McDonnell', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} + 10 more
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Galway City Community Network
September–December
[Community] GCCN continued to lobby the Chairpersons of the Galway City Planning SPC and Transportation SPC and Directors of Services calling for more participative ways of working and seeking the inclusion of relevant issues on the agendas
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Peter Keane', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Eddie Hoare', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Brian Barrett', 'role': 'Director of Services or Equivalent (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Ruth McNally', 'role': 'Director of Services or Equivalent (Galway City Council)'}
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Galway City Community Network
September–December
[Community] GCCN wrote to all Galway City Councillors about the review of speed limits and had a meeting with a number
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Ollie Crowe', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Mike Cubbard', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Frank Fahy', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Noel Larkin', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Declan McDonnell', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'John Walsh', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} + 9 more
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Galway City Community Network
January–April
[Community] GCCN participated in a consortium of organisations that developed a Manifesto and Hustings for local election candidates, include current Councillors.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Ollie Crowe', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Michael John Crowe', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Mike Cubbard', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Frank Fahy', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Mairead Farrell', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Pearce Flannery', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} + 10 more
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Galway City Community Network
May–August
[Community] GCCN circulated the submissions it made in response to the public call on the draft Strategic Policy Committee scheme and the Galway City Council draft Adaptation Strategy
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Ollie Crowe', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Mike Cubbard', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Frank Fahy', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Michael John Crowe', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Pearce Flannery', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Peter Keane', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} + 14 more
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Galway City Community Network
May–August
[Community] GCCN invited all elected Councillors to meet with GCCN members at its July Plenary meeting
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Ollie Crowe', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Michael John Crowe', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Mike Cubbard', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Frank Fahy', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Pearce Flannery', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Peter Keane', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} + 14 more
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Galway City Community Network
May–August
[Community] GCCN mae a submission on the draft Terms of Reference for the proposed Waterways Forum in Galway City
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Dermot Mahon', 'role': 'Director of Services or Equivalent (Galway City Council)'}
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Galway City Community Network
September–December
[Community] GCCN continues to participate in a consortium of organisations that is monitoring equality issues with Galway City Council based on the Equality Votes Galway Manifesto
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Ollie Crowe', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Michael John Crowe', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Mike Cubbard', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Frank Fahy', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Pearce Flannery', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Peter Keane', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} + 8 more
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Galway City Community Network
September–December
[Community] Removal of the freedom of Galway city from Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Billy Cameron', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Ollie Crowe', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Padraig Conneely', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Michael John Crowe', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Mike Cubbard', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Frank Fahy', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} + 12 more
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Galway City Community Network
January–April
[Community] Galway City Local Economic & Community Plan
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Eileen Ruane', 'role': 'Director of Services or Equivalent (Galway City Council)'}
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Galway City Community Network
May–August
[Environment] Galway City Council Green Leaf designation. Galway City Council was awarded a Green Leaf designation for 2017. From April, the project was without a co-ordinator and the project, an important one for those engaged in issues relating to the environment and sustainability, largely stalled. This was an issue of concern fro GCCN and particularly for the GCCN Environment Linkage Group.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Billy Cameron', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Padraig Conneely', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Ollie Crowe', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Michael John Crowe', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Mike Cubbard', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Frank Fahy', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} + 14 more
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Galway City Community Network
September–December
[Community] GCCN lobbied Galway City Councillors to ensure that resources for the Green Leaf project was included in the 2018 budget.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Billy Cameron', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Ollie Crowe', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Michael John Crowe', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Mike Cubbard', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Frank Fahy', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Mairead Farrell', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} + 12 more
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Galway City Community Network
September–December
[Community] GCCN lobbied Galway City Councillors in relation to the Byelaws on Busking and Street performance to be introduced in Galway City
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Billy Cameron', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Ollie Crowe', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Michael John Crowe', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Mike Cubbard', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Frank Fahy', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} {'name': 'Mairead Farrell', 'role': 'Councillor (Galway City Council)'} + 12 more
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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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