Starrus Eco Holdings, a subsidary of Beauparc Utiliites

Politician(s) lobbied: Martina Hennessy (Assistant Secretary), Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment; Oonagh Buckley (Secretary General), Department of Environment, Climate and Communications

Intent: Improved circularity through resource taxation

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Oonagh Buckley (Secretary General), Department of Environment, Climate and Communications

Intent: Highlight the level of investment in waste processing and recycling made by Panda in the past 5 years and show Panda's commitment to the extraction of resources for the circular economy.

Methods: EmailMeeting

Politician(s) lobbied: Emer Currie (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Roderic O'Gorman (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jack Chambers (Minister), Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform; Martina Hennessy (Assistant Secretary), Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment

Intent: To raise awareness of the role of the EPA's licensing unit in causing delays to infrastructure delivery and a suggestion that ACP issue both planning and an operating permits for IED activities as a means of speeding up infrastructure delivery. This would avoid a second regulatory approval step for SID/IED applications and avoid 30 mth+ delays caused by the EPA. Currently EPA only start considering an application 'in-series' when planning is granted and add extra 2+ years of additional delays.::Highlight the role that the EPA has in critical infrastructure approval and the delays caused by EPA timelines.

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Shay Brennan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas

Intent: Create awareness of the importance of the waste industry. Show recycling in action.

Methods: EmailMeeting

Politician(s) lobbied: Martin Kenny (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Marian Harkin (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Dara Calleary (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Alan Dillon (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Shay Brennan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Darragh O'Brien (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas

Intent: Raising awareness of the role of the waste industry, the processes waste undergoes and the scale of investment made by industry in waste processing and recycling

Methods: Email

Politician(s) lobbied: Darren O'Rourke (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Richard Bruton (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas

Intent: Provide clarity on the role of private sector waste collectors, describe benefits of current waste management system (including investments to date), update members of the progress of the IWMA's recycling task force and provide details of future investment pipeline. Also to explain the limitations of our industry to recycle non recyclable materials and the need for more focus on upstream design and material selection for products and packaging.

Methods: Meeting

Politician(s) lobbied: Ossian Smyth (Minister of State), Department of Environment, Climate and Communications

Intent: To inform minister of an opportunity to reduce the circa €250M annual plastic tax burden on Irish taxpayers.

Methods: Letter

Politician(s) lobbied: Ossian Smyth (Minister of State), Department of Environment, Climate and Communications

Intent: To give Minister Smyth an overview of the waste sector in Ireland and update him about latest investments by the waste sector and economic research conducted by KPMG on behalf of Irish Waste Management Association (IWMA)

Methods: LetterMeeting

Politician(s) lobbied: Philip Nugent (Assistant Secretary), Department of Environment, Climate and Communications

Intent: Highlight the need to maintain a strong price (levy) differential in order to facilitate the maximum extraction of recyclate from residual waste. To also highlight that EU recycling targets cannot be reached without extraction of recycate from residual (black bin) waste.

Methods: Letter

Politician(s) lobbied: Unknown

Intent: Unknown

Methods: Unknown