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2024-09-18
Politician(s) lobbied: Marianne Cassidy (Assistant Secretary), Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform; Barry Lowry (Chief Information Officer), Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
Intent: Obtaining information about government priorities in the area of digital transition (mainly in the health area) ::s well as greater awareness of the advantages of the Irish government considering Belgium as a good example of best practice to follow in digital transition - and specifically Single Digital Gateway - implementation
Methods: Virtual Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Digital transformation in government |
2024-05-17
Politician(s) lobbied: Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Minister of State), Department of Finance; Maurice Dockrell (Councillor), Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council; Barry Ward (Senator), Seanad
Intent: Promote fairer economic policy
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | The need for greater supports for small business |
| — | more economic competition and more consultation with taxpayers |
2024-01-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Michael McGrath (Minister), Department of Finance; Paschal Donohoe (Minister), Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform; Simon Harris (Minister), Department of Further and Higher Education, Innovation and Science; Leo Varadkar (Taoiseach), Department of the Taoiseach; Simon Coveney (Minister), Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment; Catherine Martin (Minister), Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Intent: Support for tax reductions in Budget 2024 and more supports for Ireland's small business sector and consumers. Also to promote apprenticeship programme and shift in resources towards practical further education and primary/secondary to improve work relevant skills. Also to promote reform of public broadcasting.
Methods: Social Media
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | we circulated 4 general monthly briefings covering a range of policy issues which stated the case for reforms/policy changes in the areas of taxation |
| — | enterprise |
| — | further education and broadcasting. There was no specific advantage to us or our clients but we are registering this to err on side of caution. |
2023-09-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Darragh O'Brien (Minister), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; Cormac Devlin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mary Hanafin (Councillor), Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council
Intent: Make public representatives aware of our client briefing on housing crisis
Methods: Social Media
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Briefing on housing policy |
2023-05-18
Politician(s) lobbied: Paschal Donohoe (Minister), Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform; Leo Varadkar (Taoiseach), Department of the Taoiseach; Michael McGrath (Minister), Department of Finance; Simon Coveney (Minister), Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment; Norma Foley (Minister), Department of Education; Catherine Martin (Minister), Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media; Roderic O'Gorman (Minister), Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Intent: Raising awareness of need for greater emphasis on promoting indigenous small business needs in the design of Enterprise Ireland strategy and IDA Foreign Direct Investment strategy.
Methods: Social Media
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Impact on small business of Enterprise Policy and Foreign Direct Investment |
2023-05-18
Politician(s) lobbied: Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Cormac Devlin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Ossian Smyth (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Ensuring transparency and meritocracy of appointment to senior publicly funded media regulating body
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Method of appointment of Media Commission |
2023-05-18
Politician(s) lobbied: Cormac Devlin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Raise awareness of damaging impact on SMEs of overregulation in the banking sector
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Negative impact on small business of overregulation in banking sector |
2023-05-18
Politician(s) lobbied: Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Minister of State), Department of Finance
Intent: An awareness of the need to ease access to funding for SMEs from domestic banking sector.An awareness of the damage done to SMEs by day to day banking bureaucracy due to high levels of regulation dating from previous Global Financial Crisis
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | promoting improved outcomes for SMEs from financial service industry government promotion initiatives and Central Bankregulation |
2023-01-19
Politician(s) lobbied: Robert Troy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Cormac Devlin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Willie O'Dea (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Éamon Ó Cuív (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Peadar Tóibín (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Barry Ward (Senator), Seanad; Richard Boyd Barrett (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Mary Lou McDonald (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Eoin Ó Broin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Matt Carthy (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pearse Doherty (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Barry Cowen (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Seán Fleming (Minister of State), Department of Finance; John McGuinness (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Raise awareness of need for reform and more engagement with voters citizens and taxpayers
Methods: Informal communication, Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | General communications on need for more reform in government and more engagement with taxpayers and small business |
2022-09-21
Politician(s) lobbied: Simon Harris (Minister), Department of Further and Higher Education, Innovation and Science; Norma Foley (Minister), Department of Education; Michael McGrath (Minister), Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; Leo Varadkar (An Tánaiste), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Paschal Donohoe (Minister), Department of Finance; Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Cormac Devlin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Catherine Martin (Minister), Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media; John McDonald (Special Adviser), Department of Environment, Climate and Communications; Eamon Ryan (Minister), Department of Environment, Climate and Communications; Peadar Tóibín (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pádraig O'Sullivan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Greater awareness of the need to promote more efficient state spending and less burdensome taxation::A shift of emphasis from funding more wasteful areas of public spending to more necessary areas such as, for instance, primary education provision::Better representation of taxpayers in both the National Economic Dialogue and on the Commission for Taxation and Welfare
Methods: Informal communication
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | General thought leadership on use of public funds and economic isues |