Lobbying Records (Page 1 of 141)
Independent Broadcasters of Ireland
2025-09-04
Intent: To have the priorities, concerns and proposals of our organisation's Members considered in hearings, deliberations and report of the Joint Committee and for changes where necessary to be considered.::To urgently progress the access of our sector to funding approved in the last Budget and in the Programme for Government for news and current affairs in independent radio sector.::To seek to have the priorities and concerns of commercial broadcasters in Ireland and Europe considered in relation to EU and Irish legislation on media.::To ensure that IBI was aware of and understood the plans and schedule for the introduction of gambling advertising regulation.::To ensure open and constructive communications with regulatory authorities including strategic plans for the radio sector.::To arrange meetings or ask questions re policy, regulatory or legislative issues.
Details: Briefings providing to Members of the Joint Committee on Media, and Members of the Oireachtas legislation. Meetings with Minister for Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport, and officials, re Budget/Programme for Government funding. Engagement with the Gambling Regulation Authority of Irelan, ...
Officials: Ronan O'Domhnaill, Alison Comyn, Rónán Mullen, Brian Brennan, Christopher O'Sullivan, Pádraig O'Sullivan, Joanna Byrne, Aengus Ó Snodaigh, ...
Methods: Provision of accessible funding, arranging and seeking meetings, and providing information on IBI's priorities and proposals and arranging or seeking meetings. - Email, Seeking meetings or providing links to content. - Social Media, Leinster House and nearby. Meetings to explain concerns and priorities of IBI re funding and legislation. - Meeting, ...
Bassline Strategy Ltd
2025-09-03
Intent: To provide suggested amendments which could benefit the package, including alignment of reporting criteria across directives and clarifying terminology.
Details: Outreach regarding MEP Andrews's role as rapporteur for the AFET committee on the European Commission's Omnibus package
Officials: Barry Andrews
Methods: Email
The Repair Campaign Limited
2025-08-29
Intent: the purpose of the meeting was to introduce the Repair Campaign Team which is lobbying for former colonial powers in Europe to make reparations for the damage caused by slavery in the Carribean. The meeting was held in Brussels on 1st July amid rising calls from Caribbean governments for the UK and other European nations to engage with formal demands for reparations for slavery and its impacts across the region.
Details: The Repair Campaign held a Political Briefing Event in Brussels on Tuesday 1st July 2025 and the following MEP's attended Sean Kelly, Barry Andrews, Billy Kelleher, Cynthia Ní Mhurchú, Grace Geraghty and Mia Walsh, Sophie Jacobs and Nigel Hutson
Officials: Seán Kelly, Barry Andrews, Billy Kelleher, Cynthia Ní Mhurchú, Maria Walsh
Methods: Denis O Brien and the Repair Campaign Team met with MEP's in Brussels in addition to the MEP's listed below they met with Grace Geraghty and Mia Walsh representatives of Maria Walsh MEP. They met with Sophie Jacobs a permanent representation of Ireland to the EU. Nigel Hutson General Affairs Attaché Permanent Representation of Ireland to the EU - Meeting
The Alzheimer Society of Ireland
2025-08-29
Intent: Increased awareness and adaptation of EU Policy toward dementia across a broad range of topics.
Details: Lobbying MEPs to Support the Rights of People Living with Dementia in Ireland and Across Europe
Officials: Barry Andrews, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, Nina Carberry, Maria Walsh, Luke Ming Flanagan
Methods: Meetings with Irish MEPs on the Needs of the Irish Dementia Community and how European legislation can be affected by it. - Meeting
HealthTech Ireland Association
2025-08-11
Intent: Support in raising the importance for the EU to refrain from adopting tariffs or other commercial policy measures on imports of medical technologies from the United States, for the benefit of patients, health systems and the medtech sector in Ireland
Details: Called on ministers to support 'zero for zero' tariffs for medtech between EU and US.
Officials: Simon Harris, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, Barry Andrews, Peter Burke
Methods: Email
DOCHAS - THE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF NON- GOVERNMENTAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATIONS
2025-06-06
Intent: Implementation of policies
Details: Meeting in Brussels on EU External policies
Officials: Barry Andrews
Methods: Meeting, Email
DOCHAS - THE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF NON- GOVERNMENTAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATIONS
2025-06-06
Intent: Implementation of policies
Details: Roundtable with Irish MEPs on EU External policies, preparation and follow-up
Officials: Barry Andrews, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, Lynn Boylan, Regina Doherty, Seán Kelly
Methods: Meeting, Email
Car Rental Council of Ireland
2025-05-23
Intent: To highlight a proposed legislative initiative as part of the EC Industrial Action Plan for the European Automotive Sector, which includes a plan to Decarbonise Corporate Fleets, in which the mandatory purchase of zero-emission EVs by car rental fleets is being actively considered. ::To highlight the damage such a mandate, if implemented prematurely, would do to the car rental industry and the broader tourism industry.::That the imposition of a premature BEV mandate on the European car rental fleet be resisted.
Details: Decarbonising of commercial fleets
Officials: Pa Daly, Rose Conway-Walsh, Noel Grealish, Seán Canney, Thomas Byrne, Jerry Buttimer, Dara Calleary, Jack Chambers, ...
Methods: As above - Virtual Meeting, As above - Email, As above - Phone call, ...
The ONE Campaign
2025-05-21
Intent: Provide input to MEP on EU ODA
Details: Shared ONE’s updated analysis of net financing flows
Officials: Barry Andrews
Methods: Shared ONE’s updated analysis of net financing flows to developing countries, which highlights that net financing flows to developing countries remain precariously low. - Email
The ONE Campaign
2025-05-21
Intent: Provide input to MEP on EU ODA
Details: Shared ONE policy brief 'Conflict Prevention is 100 Times Less Costly than Crisis Response'
Officials: Barry Andrews
Methods: Shared ONE's policy paper 'Conflict Prevention is 100 Times Less Costly than Crisis Response' which highlights how investing in conflict prevention can yield substantial long-term benefits, up to €103 per €1 invested. - Email