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Most recent lobbying returns

2026-01-21 Finance Community Platform — Emailed all Ministers, TDs and Senators with a copy of the Community Platform’s Four Tests for Budget 2026 asking them to support these proposals in the run up to the announcement of Budget 2026.
2026-01-20 Education and Training Dyslexia Association of Ireland — Dyslexia Awareness Month Presentation to Oireachtas Members for Dyslexia Awareness Month
2025-05-20 Education and Training The Union of Students in Ireland — Lobby day email
2025-01-30 Justice and Equality Inner City Organisations Network (ICON) — Recognition of the recrutiment of children and young people into gangland criminality as child trafficking by defintiion and evidence.
2025-01-22 Community Merchants QuayIreland Ltd — Proposals re drug treatment, homelessness, mental health and related matters
2025-01-21 Budgetary matters One Family — Disseminated One Family Pre-Budget Submission
2025-01-21 Children and Youth Affairs National Women's Council of Ireland — Public Childcare
2025-01-21 Local Government National Women's Council of Ireland — Gender Quotas - Launch of Gender Quotas Alliance Position Paper

Date	Them	Party	Action	Bill / motion	Outcome
2018-11-21	ta	staon	Amendment put	Brexit: Motion	Lost
2018-11-21	ta	nil	Amendment put	Brexit: Motion	Lost
2017-02-01	ta	nil	Amendment put	Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage	Lost
2016-11-10	ta	staon	Question put	Public Holidays (Lá na Poblachta) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] Sinn Féin PMB ↗	Lost

Date	Pos	Action	Bill / motion	Outcome
2024-11-06	ta	Question put	Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) Aontú PMB ↗	Lost
2024-10-23	nil	Question put	Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members]	Carried
2024-10-23	nil	Amendment put	Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members]	Carried
2024-10-23	nil	Question put	Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (Resumed)	Carried
2024-10-23	nil	Question put	Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members]	Carried
2024-10-23	nil	Amendment put	Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members]	Carried
2024-10-23	ta	Question put	Report of the Joint Committee on Assisted Dying: Motion (Resumed)	Carried
2024-10-23	nil	Question put	Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: From the Seanad	Carried
2024-10-15	nil	Question put	An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business	Carried
2024-10-09	nil	Question put	European Union Regulations: Motion (Resumed)	Carried
2024-10-09	nil	Question put	Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] Independent PMB ↗	Lost
2024-10-09	nil	Question put	Spending of Public Funds by the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members]	Carried
2024-10-09	nil	Amendment put	Spending of Public Funds by the Government: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members]	Carried
2024-10-09	nil	Question put	Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad Govt (Housing) ↗	Carried
2024-10-09	nil	Seanad amendment put	Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad Govt (Housing) ↗	Carried

Top departments

560	Health
302	Transport
263	Education
262	Housing
248	Justice
196	Social
178	Children
167	Taoiseach

Most recent

2024-11-07 Health Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health if he will fast-track besremi reimbursement approval and call for an immediate reassessment of besremi by the NCPE given the current shortage of Pegasys; if he is aware that the NHS in England has approved besremi for interim use and that there is a clear precedent that could be followed to protect patient safety and continuity of care; his views on the case of a person (details supplied) who is desperate to secure besremi as an urgently needed treatment option; the measures they can take in the interim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45517/24]
2024-11-06 Health Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health if he will accept all of the recommendations of the National Radiation Therapist Review report; if he will commit to full implementation of the recommendations on adequate staffing levels to safeguard vital cancer services into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45440/24]
2024-11-05 Taoiseach Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Taoiseach to report on the work of his Department's shared island unit. [45002/24]
2024-11-05 Taoiseach Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Taoiseach to report on his visit to the United States and his meeting with President Biden. [45003/24]
2024-11-05 Further and Higher Education Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the total number of alternative education establishments/settings (excluding Youthreach services) which operate outside of the traditional mainstream education system within the State; the geographical location of each setting; the criteria laid down for the establishment of an alternative education setting; the total number of students who reengage with the traditional mainstream education system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43937/24]
2024-10-24 Finance Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Finance if he will reconsider allowing the children of landlords registered with the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) to claim the rent tax credit; if he will specifically refer to a case (details supplied); if he will explain the rationale for excluding this cohort; to indicate if there are plans to include this group in the future, or offer an exemption if the tenancy and landlord are RTB compliant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43593/24]
2024-10-23 Children Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the planned legislation to preserve privately held records relating to Ireland’s institutional past will include financial records so that important information about money made from forced labour or the fees demanded from families of unjustly incarcerated women and children, or the forced export of children, is retained and available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43452/24]
2024-10-22 Education Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Education if she plans to support the call by Education Equality for the Government to compel schools to confine religious faith formation and worship to a period outside core school hours, in order to uphold families’ human and constitutional rights to freedom of religion and belief, and to vindicate the rights of teachers who do not wish to indoctrinate children into a faith they do not themselves hold; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42749/24]
2024-10-22 Further and Higher Education Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he is aware that Department officials engaged with the Teachers Union of Ireland at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) on aligning the Youthreach programme with the second level school calendar year at their last discussion at the WRC in early June 2024; if there will be an outcome to the discussions within the lifetime of the current Dáil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42748/24]
2024-10-17 Transport Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Transport if he is aware that the company (details supplied) recently awarded a lucrative contract of over €2 billion by the NTA to install ticketless operations on Irish public transport also has lucrative contracts in Israel; if his Department has examined if the company are complicit in terms of supporting Israel's apartheid separation policies through its toll road operations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42068/24]

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