Lobbying Records (Page 1 of 57)
National Traveller MABS
2025-08-27
Intent: Raise awareness of National Traveller MABS and it's work among the members of the committee.
Details: A letter of introduction was posted to all members of the Committee on Key Issues Affecting the Traveller Community 2025
Officials: George Lawlor, Barry Ward, Dessie Ellis, John Connolly, Maurice Quinlivan, Naoise Ó Muirí, Pádraig Rice, Seamus McGrath, ...
Methods: A letter of introduction was posted to each member of the committee on key issues affecting the Traveller Community. The letter introduced NTMABS and the work it does and highlighted the importance of financial inclusion and it's impact on all other facets of life. - Letter
Friends of the Earth
2025-05-21
Intent: Rejection of LNG::Ensure Gov decision on LNG is changed and brought into with climate law
Details: LNG and Climate Action
Officials: Alice-Mary Higgins, Aine Doyle, Rónán Mullen, Chris Andrews, Frances Black, Eileen Flynn, Gerard Craughwell, Lynn Ruane, ...
Methods: Email with briefing to Senator Higgins - Email, Meeting with Minister's advisor - Meeting, Emails with briefing to Minister and Taoiseach's advisors - Email, ...
Creative Retail Distribution Limited
2025-05-21
Intent: A review of the proposal to apply an E-liquids tax using self-declaration mechanism rather than a tax stamp.
Details: Email to members of the Oireachtas concerning the E-liquids Products Tax and concerns around the mechanism chosen to implement the tax via self-declaration rather than as a tax-stamp. Hale also referred to research commissioned from Forvis Mazars which raised several important policy considerations , ...
Officials: Ciarán Ahern, William Aird, Catherine Ardagh, Ivana Bacik, Cathy Bennett, Grace Boland, Richard Boyd Barrett, Tom Brabazon, ...
Methods: Email to members of the Oireachtas referring to the proposed implementation of the E-liquids tax using a self-declaration mechanism rather than a tax stamp and highlighting the findings of an independent report from Forvis Mazars on the matter. - Email
Teneo Strategy Ireland Limited
2025-05-21
Intent: Inform select public officials about Visa’s She’s Next initiative, which supports female entrepreneurs through financial grants and mentorship.
Details: Visa’s She’s Next initiative– empowering women entrepreneurs
Officials: Paschal Donohoe, Robert Troy, Jack Chambers, Peter Burke, Alan Dillon, Niamh Smyth, Catherine Callaghan, Jennifer Murnane O'Connor, ...
Methods: Minister attended and spoke at Visa’s She’s Next Award Ceremony. - Meeting, Informed public officials about Visa’s She’s Next initiative and informed select public officials regarding winners awarded in their constituencies. - Email
Irish Red Cross
2025-05-21
Intent: Support for our priorities in this policy area; raising awareness among elected representatives of host experiences
Details: Activities relating to a briefing session at Leinster House on 25/02/25, where we held a session for all TDs and Senators to present the results of a survey on the experiences of hosts under the pledged accommodation project
Officials: Ivana Bacik, Ciarán Ahern, William Aird, Catherine Ardagh, Cathy Bennett, Grace Boland, Richard Boyd Barrett, Tom Brabazon, ...
Methods: Event in Leinster House on 25/02/2025 - Event / Reception
Ibec
2025-05-21
Intent: To ensure the support of Oireachtas members for Technology Ireland's policy priorities in relation to such matters as regulatory stability and coherence, digital entrepreneurship, talent & skills for the tech sector's future employment pipeline and the appointment of a Minister of State for Digital Delivery via a networking 'lunch & learn' event in Buswells Hotel.
Details: Technology Ireland 'Lunch & Learn' event with Oireachtas members
Officials: Michael McDowell, Rónán Mullen, Conor Murphy, PJ Murphy, Margaret Murphy O'Mahony, Linda Nelson Murray, Malcolm Noonan, Evanne Ní Chuilinn, ...
Methods: Social Media, Email
College of Psychiatrists of Ireland
2025-05-20
Intent: To provide an understanding (for TDs) of being severely unwell with psychosis and severe depression from people with lived experience and how that manifested for them. To give lived experience insight into how necessary, and importantly helpful to recovery, it was to receive timely and urgent treatment as a patient under the current Mental Health Act and whom were not at immediate risk of harm or harming.
Details: Mental Health Bill 2024 and concerns re inability to provide treatment to all who will be involuntarily hospitalised due to current iteration.To provide descriptions using video recordings of people who had benefited from treatment under the current Mental Health Act explaining their illnesses and t, ...
Officials: Aengus Ó Snodaigh, Aidan Farrelly, Aindrias Moynihan, Aisling Dempsey, Alan Dillon, Albert Dolan, Ann Graves, Barry Heneghan, ...
Methods: Email to all TD.s re with videos of people with lived experience of mental illness and involuntary hospitalisation. They each describe the debilitating effects of their illness and the benefits to their recovery and life of being treated under the Mental Health Act. - Email
The Union of Students in Ireland
2025-05-20
Intent: Get TDs to attend our lobby day
Details: Lobby day email
Officials: Aengus Ó Snodaigh, Aidan Farrelly, Aindrias Moynihan, Aisling Dempsey, Alan Dillon, Alan Farrell, Alan Kelly, Albert Dolan, ...
Sage Advocacy
2025-05-16
Intent: To make members of the Oireachtas aware of services provided by Sage Advocacy to survivors of institutional abuse in advance of any forthcoming Dail debate.
Details: services provided by Sage Advocacy to survivors of institutional abuse
Officials: Willie O'Dea, Tom Brabazon, Ruth Coppinger, Ruairí Ó Murchú, Rory Hearne, Thomas Gould, Pádraig O'Sullivan, Paula Butterly, ...
Methods: Email, Meeting
Uplift
2025-05-15
Intent: that Sinn Féin is a party that is welcoming, inclusive and who listens to the experiences and expertise of transgender people and that the party supports policies that support transgender people and upholds trans rights.
Details: Uplift members sent emails to their Sinn Fèin TDs asking them to ensure that Sinn Féin is a party that is welcoming, inclusive and who listens to the experiences and expertise of transgender people.
Officials: John Brady, Aengus Ó Snodaigh, Máire Devine, Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire, Mary Lou McDonald, Denise Mitchell, Rose Conway-Walsh, Mairéad Farrell, ...
Methods: 382 emails were sent. - Email