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Lobbying Records (Page 1 of 14)
2025-10-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Peter Burke (Minister), Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment; Declan Hughes (Secretary General), Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Intent: Request for Minister for Enterprise to attend ISME Annual Lunch
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | ISME annual lunch |
2025-10-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Deirdre Gillane (Chief of Staff), Department of the Taoiseach
Intent: Ensuring that budget 2026 adequately addresses business costs, indigenous enterprise policy, SME and workforce upskilling, sustainable public finances and housing.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Pre-budget submission 2026 |
2025-10-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Unknown
Intent: To ask that require the bill as tabled would be amended to ensure compliance with the Irish constitution, the European Convention on Human Rights, and the EU Anti-SLAPP Directive which is due to come into force in May of 2026.
Methods: Email, Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Defamation Amendment Bill 2024 |
2025-10-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Jim O'Callaghan (Minister), Department of Justice; Oonagh McPhillips (Secretary General), Department of Justice
Intent: Asking the Minister for Justice to review the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009 to ban upward only reviews on leases pre-dating February 2010
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Legislation regarding upward only rent reviews |
2025-04-14
Politician(s) lobbied: Jim O'Callaghan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Niall Collins (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Robert Troy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Oonagh McPhillips (Secretary General), Department of Justice; Andrew Munro (Assistant Secretary), Department of Justice
Intent: The inclusion of a harm test; the reintroduction of transient retail defamation; action against vexatious litigation by the LSRA; the capping of defamation damages; no lift in personal injuries awards; the penalisation of SLAPP suits; control of legal costs.
Methods: Meeting, Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Defamation Amendment Bill |
2025-03-04
Politician(s) lobbied: Helen McEntee (Minister), Department of Justice and Equality; Paschal Donohoe (Minister), Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform; Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Minister of State), Department of Finance; Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Minister of State), Department of the Taoiseach; Martin Heydon (Minister of State), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; John Cummins (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Paul O'Shea (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jack Chambers (Minister), Department of Finance; Darragh O'Brien (Minister), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Norma Foley (Minister), Department of Education; Mary Butler (Minister of State), Department of Health; James Lawless (Minister of State), Department of Environment, Climate and Communications; James Browne (Minister of State), Department of Justice; Deirdre Gillane (Chief of Staff), Department of the Taoiseach; Brian Keegan (Special Advisor), Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Intent: Ensuring the TDs responsible for negotiating the program for government were aware of ISME's principal policiy priorities
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Making known the ISME policy priorities for the program for government |
2025-03-04
Politician(s) lobbied: John Callinan (Secretary General), Department of the Taoiseach; John Shaw (Assistant Secretary), Department of the Taoiseach
Intent: Ensuring SMEs have LEEF representation, enterprise policy reflects the needs of the SME sector, seeking competitive consumer prices, seeking defamation act reform and reform of legal costs, reform of PRSI, establishment of a public spending commission and a public pay commission.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Ensuring that the incoming administration is aware of the issues facing SMEs in 2025 and beyond |
2025-03-04
Politician(s) lobbied: Barry Cowen (MEP), European Parliament; Regina Doherty (MEP), European Parliament
Intent: Seeking to ensure that the proposed late payments regulation was consistent with Irish business and payment norms, especially as they pertain to SMEs.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Late Payments Regulation |
2025-03-04
Politician(s) lobbied: Dara Calleary (Minister of State), Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Intent: Ascertaining if a particular business segment was eligible for payment of the Power Up grant.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Availability of the Power Up grant |
2024-08-30
Politician(s) lobbied: John Callinan (Secretary General), Department of the Taoiseach
Intent: We sought a meeting between the Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach and the ISME National Council to discuss matters of collective bargaining and engagement with SMEs
Methods: Email, Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Social dialogue and collective bargaining |
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