Politician(s) lobbied: Micheál Martin (Taoiseach), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Government interventions to support SME businesses to deal with rising business costs.
Methods: Letter
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Government response to fuel protests and concerns raised by RGDATA and other representative groups about the huge challenges facing SME businesses due to rising fuel
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energy and other costs.
Politician(s) lobbied: Peter Burke (Minister), Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment; Alan Dillon (Minister of State), Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment
Intent: Addition of a 'Grandfather Clause' when the Directive is introduced to facilitate a smooth transition, minimise waste and avoid unnecessary and disproportionate burdens on independent retailers.
Methods: Letter
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Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition Directive (ECGT)
Politician(s) lobbied: Kevin Foley (Chairman), Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation
Intent: An investigation into 'price gouging' and comertition in the Energy Sector to be carried out bu the EU if the CCPC and the CRU continue with their non interventionist approach to competition enforcement in the Irish market.
Methods: Letter
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Seeking the inclusion of an IEA Report on Energy Costs in the Cost of Business Advisory Forum deliberations
Politician(s) lobbied: Martin Heydon (Minister), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Intent: To preserve the single market for food products and oppose extra-territoriality of non-harmonised foreign laws.
Methods: Letter
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EU proposal for a regulation on cross border enforcement of the Unfair Trading Practices Directive.
Politician(s) lobbied: Peter Burke (Minister), Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment; Jim O'Callaghan (Minister), Department of Justice; Robert Troy (Minister of State), Department of Finance; Alan Dillon (Minister of State), Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Intent: Government to reject the recommendation to increase Personal Injury Awards.
Methods: Meeting
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Judicial Council recommendation to increase Personal Injury Awards by 17%
Politician(s) lobbied: Peter Burke (Minister), Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment; Alan Dillon (Minister of State), Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Intent: Representation for RGDATA on the new Cost of Business Forum.
Methods: Letter
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Cost of Business Forum
Politician(s) lobbied: Paschal Donohoe (Minister), Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform
Intent: The use of Tax stamps on E-Liquid products.
Methods: Letter
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Application of E-Liquids Product Tax.
Politician(s) lobbied: Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Minister), Department of Health
Intent: An Economic Impact Assessment and a SME test on the proposed increase of tobacco licences to €1,000 and the introduction of a €800 vape licence for shops selling tobacco and vape products.
Methods: Letter
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Introduction of new licence for selling vapes and increase in licence fee for selling tobacco products.
Politician(s) lobbied: Paschal Donohoe (Minister), Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform; Jack Chambers (Minister), Department of Finance; Niall Collins (Minister of State), Department of Justice; Anne Marie Caulfield (CEO), Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland
Intent: A ban on licensed bookmakers taking bets on national lottery products.
Methods: Letter
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Seeking amendment to the Gambling Regulations Bill.
Politician(s) lobbied: Jim O'Callaghan (Minister), Department of Justice; Mary Fitzpatrick (Senator), Seanad; Alan Dillon (Minister of State), Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment; Peter Burke (Minister), Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment; Sharon Keogan (Senator), Seanad; Michael Healy-Rae (Minister of State), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; John McGuinness (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Rónán Mullen (Senator), Seanad; Linda Nelson Murray (Senator), Seanad; Timmy Dooley (Minister of State), Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; Robert Troy (Minister of State), Department of Finance
Intent: Amendment to the Bill to specify no cause of action if a retailer seeks proof of purchase.
Methods: Meeting
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Amendment to the Defamation Bill
