Current memberships may indicate policy relevance. They do not prove why a lobbying contact was made, and may not match membership at the time of older returns.
Intent: Support for policies and programmes beneficial for Irish beef farmers
Details: Matters of significance to Irish Cattle & Beef farmers
Intent: Circulation of a Vodafone report on the importance of secure and resilient digital connectivity as a core pillar of Europe’s security and defence, and the need to recognise it as a strategic security asset
Details: Vodafone report on the importance of secure and resilient connectivity
Intent: Recommendations to accelerate infrastructure delivery through better regulation
Details: Proposed Government Circular on Principles for Better Regulation.
Intent: Secure intended reforms to TaxSaver Scheme and generally promote shared mobility.
Details: Reforming the TaxSaver scheme
Intent: To discuss the Domestic and EU Legislative Agenda and share key priorities so as enhance the competitiveness of the Irish Funds Industry.
Details: Irish Funds Industry
Intent: awareness raising
Details: On Wednesday the 13th of January Tim Lombard, (Sophia Board Member) Michael McCarthy (Sophia Committee Member) and Tony O' Riordan (Sophia CEO) met Sean Fleming TD in his office in Leinster House. The purpose was to explain Sophia’s work in Laois and the impact of Development to provide 52 new homes, ...
Intent: Awareness of the economic importance of the industry
Details: Invitation to local stallion farm
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, ...
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, ...
Intent: To brief members of the Select Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery on the implications of the Bill’s disapplication of section 15 of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 (as amended) and the extraordinarily broad and non-safeguarded powers given to the Minister with regard to the designation of projects and programmes as critical infrastructure. Also to ask Deputies to accept the amendments deleting s. 7 of the Bill, accept amendement 7
Details: Critical Infrastructure Bill 2026
