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Threshold
Housing
- Private rental legislation
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National Principals' Forum
Education and Training
- We continued to highlight issues affecting primary education to our local public representatives such as underfunding, lack of Special Education Needs supports and pressure on principal teachers due to workload issues.
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Alcohol Action Ireland
· 2 returns
Health
- Political Declaration from the United Nations High Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases and Mental Health
- Alcohol health information labelling
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Local Ireland (representing the Regional Newspapers and Printers Association of Ireland)
Public Expenditure and Reform
- Funding for Coimisiún na Meán Schemes and sufficient Departmental Funding for Government, semi-State and Local Authority advertising to ensure equitable allocation to trusted public service content providers so that all readers and audiences are reached
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CyberSafeIreland
Children and Youth Affairs
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Novartis Ireland Limited
· 2 returns
Health
- Rare diseases conference, as an official event of the Irish EU Presidency
- IPHA Industry meeting - engagement on trade and tariff issues
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Our Lady's Hospice & Care Services
Health
- Met Simon Harris and raised nursing posts in Wicklow Hospice as an area for attention
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Pontis Advisory Limited
Housing
- Issues in relation to zoning under the newly announced section 28 guidelines
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Creative Retail Distribution Limited
· 2 returns
Taxation
- Support for Classification of HHC as a Schedule 1 Controlled Drug
- Email concerning the E-liquids Products Tax and concerns around the mechanism chosen to implement the tax via self-declaration rather than as a tax-stamp. Hale also referred to research commissioned from KPMG which raised several important policy considerations around the E-Liquids products tax including the potential for a surge in illicit and grey market sales.
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Early Childhood Ireland
· 3 returns
Public Expenditure and Reform · Children and Youth Affairs
- Early Childhood Ireland's submission on the National Development Plan (NDP) review
- Proposed increase to Personal Injury awards
- Budget 2026