Lobbying Records (Page 1 of 139)
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, ...
Crosscare
2025-09-03
Intent: As outlined above, to meet with the people named to discuss return migration.
Details: As part of a trip to Brussels with European Migration and Return Network (ERMiNE Erasmus+ project), Crosscare's Zeina Alazzeh (Policy & Networks Officer) emailed Maria Walsh MEP, Kathleen Funchion MEP and Aodhán Ó RÍORDÁIN MEP requesting a meeting with each . Subsequently, a meeting with Ciara Mu, ...
Officials: Kathleen Funchion, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, Maria Walsh
Methods: Email
Oxfam Ireland
2025-09-03
Intent: For MEP Walsh to vote no to reform
Details: LIBE committee vote on reform of the Europol Regulation (COM(2023) 754)
Officials: Maria Walsh
Methods: shared that problems with the reform have been highlighted by the EPRS report requested by LIBE and UN special rapporteur Mary Lawlor. corresponded with Maria Walsh's assistant. - Email
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
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
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 Irish Farmers' Association - IFA
2025-05-21
Intent: To highlight that restoring the overall competitiveness of the agri-food sector must be a central component of the next Government's term. Ireland's dominance in external agri-food trade relative to our size is a testament to the hard work, dedication and quality of produce from Irish farms. Farmers today are operating in a very high-cost economy relative to international competitors.::That labour costs, energy prices, and our dependence on imports of fertiliser and animal feed due to a lack of national self-sufficiency expose us to more volatility and uncertainty than others. IFA analysis shows that average production costs on Irish farms have increased by close to 75% in recent years, with two in three farms now earning below the national minimum wage.::That,over the lifetime of the next Government, decisions will be made which will have huge implications for Irish farmers. IFA has identified the following key priority issues for farming and rural Ireland in the new Programme for Gov
Details: Priorities for Farming and Rural Ireland in New Government Programme
Officials: Keira Keogh, Maria Walsh, Michael Collins, Micheál Martin, Simon Harris, Michael Lowry, Jack O'Donnell, Deirdre Gillane, ...
Methods: Letter, Submission, Social Media, ...
Insurance Ireland
2025-05-21
Intent: To highlight reforms to improve effectiveness and proportionality of Solvency II regime, Retail Investment Strategy, European Commission proposal for an insurance recovery and resolution directive, the Omnibus Simplification Package including the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, securitisation and Anti-Money Laundering regulation. To host Insurance Ireland's joint Irish Financial Services St Patrick's Day advocacy event.
Details: On behalf of members, making proposals in relation to the review of changes in European regulation and to discuss with Ireland's European Parliament representatives
Officials: Maria Walsh, Michael J. McGrath, Regina Doherty, Cynthia Ní Mhurchú, Billy Kelleher, Barry Andrews, Barry Cowen, Ciaran Mullooly, ...
Methods: Email, Meeting, Event / Reception, ...