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: Inclusion in Budget 2027 key asks within Macra's prebudget document for young farmers and rural youth::Inclusion of a pilot succession scheme worth €5m
Details: Outline and explain Macra's pre budget document asks for young farmers and rural youth with politicians
Intent: Meeting members to discuss the hospitality sector, especially the 9% VAT rate and the impact it will have on food-led businesses and its implentation. Also, discussed were a range of issues impacting businesses which included work permits, cumulative cost increases, labour costs, energy costs and apprenticeships. The benefits of the 9% VAT rate were discussed in depth. It was sought to achieve an understanding of the sector and issues that it continues to face at outlined above.
Details: Meeting with Oireachtas Members to discuss the sector in its totality
Intent: To have JTI's pre-budget 2027 submission on excise duty on tobacco products considered.
Details: Excise Duty on tobacco products.
Intent: To raise awareness among stakeholders of the scale and prevalence of the tobacco black market.
Details: Research into Illicit Trade in the Tobacco Market
Intent: To seek support for the pub sector in Budget 2027
Details: Budget 2027
Intent: raising awareness of the plans for the new National Equine Campus
Details: Attendance at National Equine Campus Stakeholder Engagement Day June 8th
Intent: To influence the social protection committees budget report. I::To call for a cost of disability payment in Budget 2027::To seek an increases in the rate of the Wage Subsidy Scheme ::To seek an increase in the income disregard for disability allowance
Details: Appearance of Adrian Stewart and Padraig Hannafin to the Social Protection Committee
Intent: To secure appropriate funding and support with the many issues being experienced by people with disabilities and their families and to see what the Government can do in Budget 2027 to address these challnges.
Details: Disability Service Providers lobby Government and local public to support the pre-Budget Submission 2027 spearheaded by the National Federation of Voluntary Service Providers to highlight the many issues facing people with ID and autism, and their families, including the critical sustainability issu, ...
Intent: Meeting on 10 June (and communications regarding logistics of same) between members of TBOI and and members of the Fine Gael parliamentary party to discuss topics including judicial review, the Civil Reform Bill, Civil Legal Aid and Criminal Legal Aid
Details: Meeting between FG and members of TBOI to discuss various legal reforms currently underway
Intent: To maximise understanding among Oireachtas members of the substantial economic significance of the thoroughbred racing and breeding industry and to ensure continued government support for the sector.
Details: Horse Racing Industry in Ireland
