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2025-09-09
Politician(s) lobbied: Domhnall Cullinan (Director), Central Bank of Ireland
Intent: To ensure a level playing field for Irish-based firms when competing with international peers and to avoid 'gold-plating' of regulations and the divergence in supervisory approaches and market access across the EU.
Methods: Event / Reception
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | EU Simplification Agenda |
2025-05-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Regina Doherty (MEP), European Parliament; Billy Kelleher (MEP), European Parliament
Intent: The intended results were to bring these issues to the attention of the MEPs and to assist the MEPs’ to raise these issues with Government colleagues as part of the Programme for Government competitiveness agenda.
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | As part of a delegation visit to Brussels with SIS’ Irish trade association |
| — | BPFI |
| — | we presented issues with gold-plating and the single market maker model in the EU. |
2024-05-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Michael J. McGrath (Assistant Secretary), Department of Finance
Intent: Awareness of issues facing market makers in Ireland and the support of Irish policy makers in Europe with respect to the contribution of market makers to liquidity in Europe and concerns about the impact that the IFR review could have on liquidity as well as market integrity issues with the single market maker model and PFOF unlevel playing fields.
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Capital Markets Union |
| — | IFR |
| — | MAR and BEPS |
2020-05-13
Politician(s) lobbied: Frances Fitzgerald (MEP), European Parliament; Billy Kelleher (MEP), European Parliament
Intent: We want the Irish authorities to advocate with ESMA and the Commission that specified ‘pre-hedging practices’ on the Request for Quote (RFQ) and “call around” markets should be prohibited as they constitute an abuse of non-public information and is damaging to clients and to market integrity.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) review of the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR). |
2017-05-12
Politician(s) lobbied: Brian Hayes (MEP), European Parliament
Intent: Changes to Central Bank policy on remuneration and improvements to the consistency of application of remuneration rules throughout EU.
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Application of the remuneration rules under Directive 2013/36/EU (Capital Requirements Directive) and proposed changes to this legislation. |