Jim O'Callaghan — Watch Them Work

Legal practice

Between 1 January 2025 and 24 January 2025 I practiced as a Senior Counsel: The Law Library, Distellery Building, 145-151 Church Street, Dublin 7.

39 related bills:

Arbitration (Amendment) Bill 2025 Govt (Foreign Affairs) ↗ — ta (2026-04-15)
Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 4(2)) (Scheme Termination Date) Order 2026 — nil ta (2 stages, latest 2026-03-25)
Criminal Law and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2026 Govt (Justice) ↗ — ta (2026-01-28)
Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025 Govt (Justice) ↗ — nil ×4 ta ×2 (6 stages, latest 2025-07-08)
Criminal Law (Prohibition of the Disclosure of Counselling Records) Bill 2025 People Before Profit-Solidarity PMB ↗ — ta (2025-06-18)
Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 9(2)) (Amount of Financial Contribution) Order 2025 — nil (2025-05-21)
Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 4(2)) (Scheme Termination Date) Order 2025 — nil ta (2 stages, latest 2025-03-26)
Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025 Govt (Public Expenditure) ↗ — ta ×4 (4 stages, latest 2025-02-12)

31 more

Who's been in their ear 602 lobbying returns filed · 34th Dáil

Most recent lobbying returns

2026-03-18 Children and Youth Affairs Sisters of Mercy — Engagement on the issue of Child Trafficking in Ireland
2026-02-17 Justice and Equality The Association of Farm & Forestry Contractors in Ireland (FCI) Ltd — Legal Clarification - Agricultural & Forestry Machinery & use of Cycle Lanes / Road Edge Space
2026-02-13 Justice and Equality Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Ireland — On 13/02/2026, JRS wrote to the Office of the Minister for Justice, highlighting the need for direct engagement with asylum seekers/asylum-seeker-led groups to ensure their voices and experience inform policy; to raise concerns in relation to the distress experienced by those living long term in the IPAS system; to highlight the human dimension of asylum policies and the impact of negative decisions on persons that have successfully integrated in Ireland; and to call for durable solutions.
2026-02-12 Justice and Equality Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Ireland — In January 2026, JRS Ireland issued a copy of the 2026 JRS Ireland Intercultural and Interfaith Calendar to a number of relevant designated public officials and raised serious concerns about increasing polarisation around migration and asylum issues in Ireland.
2026-02-05 Justice and Equality Irish SME Association — The termination of upward only rent reviews
2026-01-22 Justice and Equality Comhlámh — Comhlámh's member group, Ireland Says Welcome, sent a letter to raise concerns about proposals that Minister O'Callaghan was bringing to cabinet that day to 1. Require people in IPAS accommodation who have jobs to pay 10-40% of their income as a contribution to the cost of their accommodation, 2. Restrict the possibility of naturalisation in the future for people who have received certain social welfare payments, and 3. To make family reunification less accessible for recognised refugees.
2026-01-22 Communications Irish Council for Civil Liberties — Data Protection Enforcement
2026-01-22 Justice and Equality National LGBT Federation — CAHC to provide our observations for post-Hate Offences Act enactment report

Broke with Fianna Fáil 10 times

Recent divisions

Date	Them	Party	Action	Bill / motion	Outcome
2024-02-20	nil	ta	Question put	Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) Govt (Housing) ↗	Carried
2023-05-31	staon	nil	Question put	Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] People Before Profit-Solidarity PMB ↗	Carried
2018-12-05	nil	ta	Amendment put	Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) Govt (Health) ↗	Lost
2018-12-05	nil	ta	Amendment put	Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) Govt (Health) ↗	Lost
2018-12-05	nil	ta	Amendment put	Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) Govt (Health) ↗	Lost
2018-12-05	nil	ta	Amendment put	Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) Govt (Health) ↗	Lost
2018-12-05	nil	ta	Amendment put	Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) Govt (Health) ↗	Lost
2018-12-05	nil	ta	Amendment put	Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) Govt (Health) ↗	Lost
2018-11-29	nil	ta	Amendment put	Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) Govt (Health) ↗	Lost
2018-03-21	ta	nil	Question again put	Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) Govt (Health) ↗	Carried

Date	Pos	Action	Bill / motion	Outcome
2026-04-15	ta	Question put	Tackling Soaring Energy Costs: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members]	Carried
2026-04-15	ta	Amendment put	Tackling Soaring Energy Costs: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members]	Carried
2026-04-15	ta	Question put	Fuel Prices: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members]	Carried
2026-04-15	ta	Amendment put	Fuel Prices: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members]	Carried
2026-04-15	nil	Question put	Organisation of Working Time (Leave for Health Screening Purposes) Bill 2025: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] Labour Party PMB ↗	Lost
2026-04-15	ta	Question put	Arbitration (Amendment) Bill 2025: Report and Final Stages Govt (Foreign Affairs) ↗	Carried
2026-04-15	ta	Question put	International Protection Bill 2026: From the Seanad Govt (Justice) ↗	Carried
2026-04-15	nil	Amendment to amendment put	International Protection Bill 2026: From the Seanad Govt (Justice) ↗	Lost
2026-04-15	ta	Seanad amendment put	International Protection Bill 2026: From the Seanad Govt (Justice) ↗	Carried
2026-04-15	ta	Seanad amendment put	International Protection Bill 2026: From the Seanad Govt (Justice) ↗	Carried
2026-04-14	ta	Question put	Financial Resolution No. 2: Natural Gas Carbon Tax	Carried
2026-04-14	ta	Question put	Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax	Carried
2026-04-14	nil	Amendment put	Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax	Lost
2026-04-14	ta	Question put	Confidence in Government: Motion	Carried
2026-04-14	ta	Question put	An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business	Carried

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Top departments

1,645	Justice
526	Health
205	Finance
192	Education
161	Housing
124	Children
119	Transport
109	Enterprise

Most recent

2025-01-22 Transport Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Transport if he has received a report in relation to progress on camera enforcement of road traffic laws; if not, if such a report has been commissioned by the National Transport Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1280/25]
2025-01-22 Public Expenditure Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform whether he proposes to make any changes to the public sector’s pensions scheme that prevents the payment of a spousal pension where the surviving person marries again or cohabits with a new partner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46267/24]
2025-01-22 Enterprise Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA-supported jobs in each county at the end of 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1732/25]
2025-01-22 Enterprise Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of Enterprise Ireland-supported jobs in each county at the end of 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1733/25]
2025-01-22 Enterprise Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of Local Enterprise Office-supported jobs in each county at the end of 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1734/25]
2025-01-22 Housing Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the regeneration of Pearse House, Pearse Street, Dublin 2, will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1310/25]
2025-01-22 Justice Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question No. 790 of 5 November 2024, if she has received the necessary information from the Garda authorities in order to have this PQ answered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46347/24]
2025-01-22 Justice Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Justice the number of Gardaí, by rank attached to a unit (details supplied) as of 4 December 2024; if she will provide same figures as of 31 December 2023, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46348/24]
2025-01-22 Justice Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question No. 797 of 5 November 2024, if she has received the necessary information from the Garda authorities in order to have this PQ answered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46349/24]
2025-01-22 Justice Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question No. 792 of 5 November 202, if she has received the necessary information from the Garda authorities in order to have this PQ answered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46352/24]

Jim O'Callaghan Fianna Fáil · Dublin Bay South

Declarations & votes of note

Who's been in their ear 602 lobbying returns filed · 34th Dáil

Broke with Fianna Fáil 10 times

Recent divisions

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