Lobbying Records (Page 1 of 61)
DBI Advisory & Services Company Limited By Guarantee
Current/Former DPOWhat is lobbying? (FAQ)2025-12-23
Intent: To seek additional funding, supports and provisions for businesses, including Budget measures, competitiveness initiatives, AI adoption, Grow Digital Voucher reform, and related public funding.
Details: Funding and supports for digital businesses.
Officials: Peter Burke, Laura Mannion, Jean Carberry, James Lawless, Harry McCann, Dermot Coates, Emer Higgins, Malcolm Byrne, ...
Methods: Multiple email communications regarding proposals, seeking support and requesting meetings to discuss items for inclusion in Budget 2026 relating to competitiveness initiatives, AI adoption, Grow Digital Voucher reform, and related public funding for businesses. - Email, Various meetings with officials to discuss proposals and to seek support for Digital Business Ireland's pre-budget submission, and supports for innovation, education, digital upskilling, and regulatory guidance for businesses. - Meeting
Polio Survivors Ireland
2025-12-19
Intent: Request that the Committee considers and discusses the concerns and takes corrective action urgently
Details: Wrote to the Joint Committee on Disability Matters to express urgent concern regarding the challenges faced by persons with disabilities living within the Direct Provision system.
Officials: Maurice Quinlivan, Micheál Carrigy, Peter 'Chap' Cleere, Martin Daly, Séamus Healy, Kiera Keogh, Liam Quaide, Gillian Toole, ...
Methods: Collaborative letter co-signed by a collective of advocates, organisations and academics - Letter
Childminding Ireland
2025-11-19
Intent: The sustainability of childminding into the future.
Details: Calling for an independent review of the working of the new childminding system.
Officials: Kiera Keogh, Brian Brennan, Claire Kerrane, Michael Healy-Rae, Michael Fitzmaurice, Nikki Bradley, Margaret Murphy O'Mahony, Seán Ó Fearghaíl, ...
Methods: Email, Meeting
Sage Advocacy
2025-09-22
Intent: To develop awareness of the services provided by Sage Advocacy
Details: Information regarding the advocacy supports provided by Sage Advocacy for survivors of institutional abuse.
Officials: Garret Ahearn, Manus Boyle, Nikki Bradley, Cathal Byrne, Maria Byrne, Martin Conway, Mark Duffy, Garret Kelleher, ...
Methods: Email
Vulcan Consulting Limited
2025-09-21
Intent: To raise the profile of rare disease policy amongst Irish political stakeholders & seek updates on a range of rare disease policy matters.
Details: Rare Disease Policy in Ireland
Officials: Pádraig O'Sullivan, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Pádraig Rice, Colm Burke, David Cullinane, Michael Cahill, Sorca Clarke, Martin Daly, ...
Methods: Email, Phone call, Submission
Vulcan Consulting Limited
2025-09-21
Intent: To raise awareness of the challenges associated with diagnosing and treating Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Ireland
Details: Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Awareness
Officials: John Lahart, Paula Butterly, Jennifer Murnane O'Connor, Manus Boyle, Peter Roche, Pádraig O'Sullivan, Maria Byrne, Colm Burke, ...
Methods: Phone call, Informal communication, Event / Reception
Rare Diseases Ireland
2025-09-20
Intent: Inclusion of rare diseases as a priority for Ireland to showcase during Ireland's EU Presidency in 2026.
Details: Seeking to highlight rare diseases during Ireland's EU Presidency in 2026 with an official event during the presidency
Officials: Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Stephen Foley, Muiris O’Connor, Simon Harris, Thomas Byrne, James Lawless, Peter Burke, Catherine Ardagh, ...
Methods: Invitation to selected TDs & Senators to join a meeting discussing plans to request official rare disease event during EU Presidency. - Email, 1 hour meeting of Oireachtas All Party Group on Rare Diseases meeting to discuss importance and reasoning for highlighting rare diseases during EU Presidency - Meeting, Letter sent to Ministers for Health requesting official event highlighting rare diseases during EU Presidency - copied to Tánaiste, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment - Letter
Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC)
2025-09-20
Intent: To seek support for FLAC's proposed amendments to the 2025 Bill
Details: Bereaved Partner’s Bill 2025
Officials: Aidan Davitt, Alice-Mary Higgins, Alison Comyn, Anne Rabbitte, Aubrey McCarthy, Cathal Byrne, Catherine Ardagh, Chris Andrews, ...
Methods: Meeting with Louise O'Reilly TD in Leinster House on 8 May 2025 to seek the deputy's support for FLAC's proposed amendments to the 2025 Bill - Meeting, Follow-up email to Louise O’Reilly TD on 13 May 2025 with proposed parliamentary question concerning the 2025 Bill. - Email, Follow-up emails to Louise O’Reilly TD seeking support and assistance with an AV Room Briefing concerning the 2025 bill on 22 May 2025, 12 June 2025, 13 June 2025, 25 June 2025 and 26 June 2025. - Email, ...
Rockwood Consulting ULC
Current/Former DPOWhat is lobbying? (FAQ)2025-09-20
Intent: Simplify processes for transforming over the shop spaces into housing and revitalise under-used housing stock
Details: Supported the focus of the informal Oireachtas cross-party Committee at Leinster House
Officials: Danny Healy-Rae, Aidan Davitt, Robbie Gallagher, Pat the Cope Gallagher, John Clendennen, Malcolm Noonan, Imelda Goldsboro, Margaret Murphy O'Mahony, ...
Methods: Event / Reception
Irish Hotels Federation
2025-09-19
Intent: Restoration of the 9% rate of VAT for hospitality food services::Measures to improve cost competitiveness and avoid any further cost increases::For a review to be carried out of options for assisting hotels to develop employer-led staff accommodation across the sector::Targeted funding for a national hotel retrofitting scheme to reduce carbon footprint::Increased investment and support for tourism marketing both domestically and overseas.::Insurance reform and policy to avoid any additional increases in insurance costs::Increased investment in training and skills development within the sector::Robust enforcement of regulations around short term lettings::Additional resources for tourism economic research::Avoid the introduction of a tourist tax::Increased air access including removal of cap at Dublin airport
Details: Seeking Government measures to support the continued recovery of Ireland's tourism and hospitality industry
Officials: Cathy Bennett, Pauline Tully, Robbie Gallagher, Brendan Smith, Cathal Crowe, Joe Cooney, Martin Conway, John Paul O'Shea, ...
Methods: Lobbying event for members of the Oireachtas seeking tourism supports in Budget 2026 - Event / Reception, Seeking tourism supports in Budget 2026, including restoration of 9% VAT for hospitality food services - Letter, Seeking tourism supports in Budget 2026, including restoration of 9% VAT for hospitality food services - Social Media, ...