Lobbying Records (Page 1 of 33)
IS&WFPO CLG
2025-09-08
Intent: To highlight Members views and concerns on all issues listed above
Details: Visas for A Typical Workers, Review of CFP, Access to Irish Waters, Quotas/Fish Stocks in Irish Waters, Coastal States Access, Fishing Opportunities and Fisheries Control
Officials: Timmy Dooley, Maria Walsh, Nina Carberry, Cynthia Ní Mhurchú, Manus Boyle
Methods: Email
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, ...
BioMarin International Limited
2025-09-03
Intent: Raising awareness about rare disease policy in Ireland and the EU and improving access to treatments for rare disease patients
Details: Rare disease policy in Ireland and the EU
Officials: James O'Connor, John Lahart, Erin McGreehan, Cynthia Ní Mhurchú, Barry Cowen, Mary Rose Desmond, Micheál Martin, Pádraig O'Sullivan, ...
Methods: Raising awareness about rare disease policy in Ireland and the EU and improving access to treatments for rare disease patients - Email, Raising awareness about rare disease policy in Ireland and the EU and improving access to treatments for rare disease patients - Meeting, Raising awareness about rare disease policy in Ireland and the EU and improving access to treatments for rare disease patients - Phone call, ...
Irish fish Producers Organisation Ltd
2025-09-01
Intent: Inform and share perspectives from a Stakeholder (fisher) point of view - update re key challenges and resilience issues ::Input into Marine Spatial Planning and Developer Led Projects as well as DMAP process::Increase awareness at Policy Level re need for Stakeholder Consultation re Third Country Fishery Access Agreements ::Increased focus on Marine Imperatives, Ambitions and deliverables in line with the current Programme for Government::Appraise policy makers re spatial squeeze impacts on Seafood Sector re ORE developments phase 1::Exchange perspectives regarding the CFP evaluation and Review stages
Details: Engagement with Minister for State and DAFM TEAM re National Strategic issues pertaining to Marine Policy and to focus on achieving national objectives in Programme for Govat
Officials: Sinead McSherry, Timmy Dooley, Paschal Hayes, Caroline Bocquel, Philip Nugent, Rick Officer, Martin Heydon, Billy Kelleher, ...
Methods: GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE COVERING POLICY AND DEVELOPMENTAL ISSUES OF STRATEGIC NATIONAL IMPORTANCE FOR THE SEAFOOD SECTOR SUCH AS SCIENTIFIC WORK, NATIONAL EU ENGAGEMENT ETC - Phone call, Also ongoing correspondence with MEP s re EU Policy relating to CFP and CMOAS ABOVE - Letter, AS ABOVEAlso meeting with Marine Survey Office re Marine compliance related issuesAlso ongoing correspondence with MEP s - Meeting, ...
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
Dungarvan & West Waterford Chamber
2025-08-25
Intent: Enable faster, better delivery on housing, transport, infrastructure, and town centre management
Details: Devolving greater authority and resources to local authorities
Officials: Fiona Quinn, Mary Butler, David Cullinane, John Cummins, Conor D McGuinness, Joe Conway, Damien Geoghegan, Pat Nugent, ...
Methods: To read the submission:https://chambers.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Local-Democracy-Taskforce-Submission-by-Chambers-Ireland-August-2025-1.pdfJoint submission coordinated by Chambers Ireland, submitted to Dept of Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Submission, 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, ...
Janssen Sciences Ireland UC
Current/Former DPOWhat is lobbying? (FAQ)2025-05-21
Intent: To promote Irish input into the development of the EU Strategy for the Life Sciences in 2025.::To support pharmaceutical innovation and competitiveness at European level by maintaining the existing baselines of IP and incentives for new medicines in the context of the revision of the general pharmaceutical legislation.
Details: Interactions with MEPs on EU and national life sciences policy
Officials: Billy Kelleher, Cynthia Ní Mhurchú, Seán Kelly, Nina Carberry
Methods: Meeting with Billy Kelleher MEP in the European Parliament at which Liam Cullen was also present. - Meeting, Informal conversations with MEPs Kelly, Carberry, and Ní Mhurcú in the European Parliament in Brussels. - Informal communication
Stripe
2025-05-21
Intent: Inform EU debate on competitiveness and advocate on behalf of European startups and scaleups for a more supportive policy and regulatory environment to power European growth
Details: Event “Scaling Europe Summit: How Startups Can Grow a Competitive Online Economy,” hosted in collaboration with the Lisbon Council and Stripe.
Officials: Cynthia Ní Mhurchú, Gerry Cross, Seán Kelly
Methods: Event entitled “Scaling Europe Summit: How Startups Can Grow a Competitive Online Economy,” hosted in collaboration with the Lisbon Council and Stripe, which saw approximately 140 attendees including startup founders, venture capital firms and policymakers gather to discuss ways to unlock the growth potential of European startups and scaleups. - Event / Reception, Lisbon Council report published with the support of Stripe entitled 'When Europe Scales - How Startups and Scale-ups Can Drive European Competitivenessand Why Good Regulation Is More Important than Ever'. - Submission
Stripe
2025-05-21
Intent: Exchange views on and inform ongoing EU debate on policy developments impacting Fintech Sector in Europe.
Details: European Fintech Association delegation to European Parliament
Officials: Regina Doherty, Cynthia Ní Mhurchú
Methods: Meeting