Irish Heart Foundation

Politician(s) lobbied: Pádraig Rice (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Marie Sherlock (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Colm Burke (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Michael Cahill (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Martin Daly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ann Graves (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Claire Kerrane (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Erin McGreehan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Darren O'Rourke (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ryan O'Meara (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Aisling Dempsey (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Denise Mitchell (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Joe Cooney (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas

Intent: To request a Joint Health Committee hearing on women's heart health following the Oireachtas Heart and Stroke Group meeting in November 2025::To seek information regarding the extent to which flexible, community-based cardiac rehabilitation and respite supports are available to help women balance recovery with caring responsibilities.::To seek information on the level of funding being planned or allocated specifically for research on women’s cardiovascular health, including prevention, diagnosis, and recovery. ::To seek information on whether the Women’s Health Fund and the Sláintecare Integration Fund would be used to subsidise essential post-diagnosis care for women with cardiovascular disease, including medication, transport and rehabilitation::To seek information on the measures being taken to ensure that healthcare professionals in primary and secondary care receive training on sex-specific cardiovascular symptoms and risk factors, and how this will be integrated into accreditatio

Methods: EmailPhone call

Politician(s) lobbied: Cathal Crowe (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Claire Kerrane (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Colm Burke (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Cormac Devlin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Dara Calleary (Minister), Department of Social Protection; Darren O'Rourke (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Erin McGreehan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (Minister of State), Department of Health; Marie Sherlock (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Martin Daly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pa Daly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pádraig Rice (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pat the Cope Gallagher (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Paul Donnelly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Paula Butterly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Richard O'Donoghue (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Roderic O'Gorman (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Aubrey McCarthy (Senator), Seanad; Eileen Flynn (Senator), Seanad; Evanne Ní Chuilinn (Senator), Seanad; Imelda Goldsboro (Senator), Seanad; Maria Byrne (Senator), Seanad; Margaret Murphy O'Mahony (Senator), Seanad; Mark Daly (Senator), Seanad; Pauline Tully (Senator), Seanad; Patricia Stephenson (Senator), Seanad; Robbie Gallagher (Senator), Seanad; Shane Curley (Senator), Seanad; Catherine Ardagh (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; David Cullinane (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Emer Currie (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Emer Higgins (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Grace Boland (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Holly Cairns (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ivana Bacik (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Brady (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Clendennen (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Connolly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Johnny Mythen (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Louise O'Reilly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Michael Murphy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Natasha Newsome Drennan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Peter Roche (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Réada Cronin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Richard Boyd Barrett (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Robert O'Donoghue (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Rose Conway-Walsh (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Séamus Healy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Seamus McGrath (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Seán Canney (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Shane Moynihan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Shay Brennan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Sorca Clarke (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Thomas Gould (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Barry Heneghan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas

Intent: To raise awareness of the high level of unregulated digital unhealthy food marketing that children are exposed to online, to the detriment of their health.::To secure support for greater regulation of digital food marketing. ::To secure attendance to a meeting of the Oireachtas Heart and Stroke group.

Methods: EmailEvent / ReceptionPhone call

Politician(s) lobbied: Maria Byrne (Senator), Seanad; Nicole Ryan (Senator), Seanad; Patricia Stephenson (Senator), Seanad

Intent: To secure support for the Public Health (Single-Use Vapes) Bill 2025.::To secure support for amendments to strengthen the Public Health (Single-Use Vapes) Bill 2025.

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (Minister of State), Department of Health; Pádraig Rice (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Marie Sherlock (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jen Cummins (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Peter 'Chap' Cleere (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Cathal Crowe (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Colm Burke (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Martin Daly (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas

Intent: To secure support for the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) (Amendment) Bill 2026.::To thank politicians who are supportive of the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) (Amendment) Bill 2026.::To secure support for additional amendments to strengthen the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) (Amendment) Bill 2026.

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Rachel Hartigan (Councillor), Clare County Council; Tom Clonan (Senator), Seanad; Seán Kelly (Councillor), Louth County council; Cathal Crowe (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas

Intent: To raise awareness of the priorities of the Irish Heart Foundation.::To secure support among councillors for the development of a new national cardiovascular policy.::To raise awareness of the impact of stroke.::To aid a stroke survivor by installing a blue disability parking spot outside their home.

Methods: Informal communicationEmailPhone call

Politician(s) lobbied: Ciarán Ahern (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Darragh O'Brien (Minister), Department of Transport

Intent: To secure information on the annual cost for subsidised public transport. ::To secure information on the number of schools that have applied and have availed of the Safe Routes to School programme.::To secure information on the level of annual funding for the Safe Routes to School programme. ::The numbers of people applying to the Cycle-to-Work scheme.

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Ciarán Ahern (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Simon Harris (Minister), Department of Finance; Darragh O'Brien (Minister), Department of Transport

Intent: To secure information on the revenue raised from the Nitrogen Dioxide levy, and how much extra funding would be raised if the levy rates were increased.::To secure information on the number of fossil fuel powered private cars registered in Ireland.

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Colm Burke (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Simon Harris (Minister), Department of Finance

Intent: To seek information on the level of funding provided annually to tobacco cessation programmes.::To seek information on the policies implemented by Revenue to combat illicit tobacco trade. ::To seek information on the price of the Most Popular Price Category (MPPC) of a 20 pack of cigarettes. ::To seek information on the number of summary and indictable convictions secured in 2024, 2025, and to date in 2026, for the evasion of tobacco excise duty and illegal selling of illicit tobacco.::To seek information on the level of resources allocated to Revenue, and what new or improved enforcement actions are being taken to combat illicit tobacco smuggling.::To seek information on how effective the new regulations introduced in November 2025 that strengthen rules relating to the amount of duty-paid tobacco products an individual can bring into Ireland from another European Union (EU) Member State have been in reducing the number of non-Irish duty paid cigarettes in Ireland.

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Colm Burke (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Minister), Department of Health

Intent: To seek information on the level of funding provided to the vaping and nicotine use prevention campaign.::To seek information on what plans the Department of Health have to establish a Stop Vaping Service, modelled on the successful QUITLINE service, but to support individuals quit e-cigarettes and other novel nicotine products.

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Marie Sherlock (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Martin Heydon (Minister), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Intent: To seek information on the estimated cost of abolishing the parental levy on the school milk scheme.

Methods: Email