Paschal Donohoe

Intent: To secure attendance to the Health Promotion Alliance Ireland event on the social determinants of health.

Details: Commercial Determinants of Health

Intent: Funding for disability measures in Budget 2027. Specific asks available at https://www.disability-federation.ie/publications/dfi-pre-budget-2027-the-least-we-can-expect-1/

Details: DFI Pre Budget Submission 2027

Intent: Have the government allocate ring-fenced funding for local authority swimming pools. ::For the government to introduce a tax credit for Gym and swim memberships.::Met with Minister Robert Troy with the Insurance Alliance in government buildings to discuss insurance reform.

Details: Pre Budget Submission for Swimming pool Fund and Gym tax Credit

Intent: Key priorities to be identified and addressed in Budget 2027

Details: Construction specific funding model for AHBs. A cost recovery for CAS/CLSS units. Addressing gearing for AHB's. CALF Funding. CREL Funding and cost rental viability. Funding of communal and community facilities. Addressing fuel poverty. A multidisciplinary approach to address family homelessness.Imp, ... Read more

Intent: Support for policies and programmes beneficial for Irish beef farmers

Details: Matters of significance to Irish Cattle & Beef farmers

Intent: The correspondence warned the Bill could push adult smokers back to cigarettes and fuel an illegal market. Over 350,000 adults vape in Ireland, with more than half having quit smoking entirely, yet the Bill would effectively ban the flavours used by 97% of adult vapers. International experience shows bans drive black markets, increase smoking relapse, and undermine compliant Irish businesses without reducing youth access.

Details: The Reduced Risk Products Association briefed Deputies ahead of the Second Stage debate on the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) (Amendment) Bill 2026. The RRPA supports measures to reduce youth uptake, strengthen age-of-sale enforcement and restrict marketing to minors, ... Read more

Intent: The correspondence referenced European analysis suggesting a substantial proportion of vaping products circulating within the EU may be entering through irregular or illegal channels. It warned that weak enforcement, cross-border purchasing and online sales create risks for youth access, tax compliance and consumer safety. The RRPA argued that further restrictions without stronger enforcement could expand black market activity and undermine legitimate retail trade.

Details: The Reduced Risk Products Association issued correspondence to all TDs and Senators highlighting concerns about enforcement capacity within Ireland’s vaping sector. The communication stressed that the effectiveness of any regulatory framework will depend not on legislative intent alone, but on robus, ... Read more

Intent: For the relevant deregation to be applied to Sika deer, and the removal of Sika and Fallow deer from the list of invasive allien species, to avoid unintended consquences.

Details: Concern regarding designation of Fallow and Sika deer as Invasive Alien Species under Statutory Instrument No. 374/2024

Intent: To seek support for measures to tackle rising illicit tobacco trade and smuggling.

Details: Tackling illicit trade

Intent: Removal of the 'on or before' requirement in Revenue reporting of the small benefit exemption

Details: Amendment of Section 897C of the Finance Act 2022