Maria Byrne

Maria Byrne

Total Lobbying Efforts: 811

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Red Flag Consulting Limited

2025-01-21

Intent: Raising awareness around key challenges around Gambling Regulation Act

Details: Highlighting key challenges around Gambling Regulation Act

Officials: Barry Ward, John McGahon, John Cummins, Gary Gannon, Malcolm Byrne, Mary Fitzpatrick, Colm Brophy, Alan Farrell, ...

Methods: Email

Eli Lilly and Company

2025-01-21

Intent: To update policymakers/stakeholders on Lilly's investment in strategic manufacturing operations in Limerick and Kinsale; to highlight key policy areas of importance for Lilly's continued growth in both Ireland and across the EU, including advocating for EU legislative reform that ensures equal and timely access to innovations for all patients across Europe and the strengthening of legislative protections for intellectual property rights.

Details: Update on company operations in Ireland and EU

Officials: Regina Doherty, Kathleen Funchion, Seán Kelly, Michael McGrath, Peter Burke, Michael McNamara, Patrick O'Donovan, Kieran O'Donnell, ...

Methods: Meeting, Email, Letter, ...

Epilepsy Ireland

2025-01-21

Intent: To raise awareness of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy.::Asked DPOs to share a message of support for SUDEP Action Day on their social media channels.::Seeking support for Epilepsy Ireland's calls for the development of a national strategy to reduce epilepsy-related deaths in Ireland

Details: Writing to Minister for Health and all TDs and Senators to raise awareness of SUDEP Action Day 2024 and providing details of a new Irish study on the prevalence of SUDEP in Ireland.

Officials: Stephen Donnelly, Fiona O'Loughlin, Mark Wall, Maria Byrne

Methods: Wrote to Minister for Health providing detailed information on study and seeking a meeting to discuss study's findings. - Letter, Contacted Minister Carroll MacNeill to see if she would sponsor the hosting of a Dáil briefing on this study around epilepsy-related deaths. - Email, Emailed Senators O'Loughlin, Wall & Byrne to thank them for raising SUDEP and SUDEP Action Day during Seanad Business and seeking a meeting to follow up on same. - Email

Epilepsy Ireland

2025-01-21

Intent: For them to support our campaign to enhance Epilepsy Services & Infrastructure nationally to improve access to specialist services and treatments for the 45,000 people living with epilepsy in Ireland.::For them to support our campaign to expand the HSE’s Chronic Disease Management Programme to include epilepsy, encouraging collaboration between people with epilepsy and their GPs and reducing pressure on specialist services.::For them to support our campaign to develop a National Strategy to reduce the estimated 130 epilepsy-related deaths in Ireland and taking targeted action to save lives.::For them to support our campaign to make Ireland’s schools seizure-safe for the 10,000 children with epilepsy of school going age by ensuring all teachers are trained in seizure first aid and epilepsy.awareness as part of initial teacher training.::For them to support our campaign to ensuring Ireland’s 2022 commitment to implementing the WHO Intersectoral Global Action Plan on Epilepsy and other Ne

Details: Contacted listed DPOs in their capacity as General Election Candidates to support EI's advocacy campaigns if elected to the next Dáil

Officials: Cathy Bennett, Joe Cooney, Peter Cleere, David Fitzgerald, Michael Doyle, Seán Ó hArgáin, Adrienne Wallace, Carmel Brady, ...

Methods: Email

Flutter Entertainment PLC

2025-01-21

Intent: To communicate Flutter's support for the Bill establishing the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland and to outline concerns about the unintended consequences of a small number of provisions in the Bill.

Details: Correspondence in relation to the Gambling Regulation Bill

Officials: Michael McDowell, Tim Lombard, John McGahon, Denis O'Donovan, John Cummins, Garret Ahearn, Paul Daly, Jerry Buttimer, ...

Methods: Letters sent outlining Flutter's position on unintended consequences of a small number of measures within the Bill. - Letter

Irish Kidney Association

2025-01-21

Intent: People on dialysis need 3 to 4 hour sessions, 3 days a week. Currently people on dialysis cannot go on holidays, visit families and friends or complete work trips in other parts of Ireland, away from their local dialysis units. This is because ' out of area dialysis' is not generally available as dialysis units are at capacity. The aim is to ensure that people on dialysis can travel in their own country away from their local dialysis unit.

Details: Provision of out of area dialysis in Ireland, so people can travel to visit their loved ones.

Officials: Anna Grainger, Shane O'Callaghan, Cathal Byrne, Mike Kennelly, Sharon Tolan, Paraic Brady, Tim Durkan, Tim Lombard, ...

Methods: Informal communication

Insurance Ireland

2025-01-21

Intent: To communicate the support and concerns of the insurance industry for the delivery of pragmatic pensions and life assurance policy, including engagement on the pension related provisions in the Finance Bill

Details: On behalf of members, providing input into pensions and life assurance policy

Officials: Jack Chambers, Neale Richmond, Peadar Tóibín, Steven Matthews, John McGuinness, Bernard Durkan, Pearse Doherty, Richard Boyd Barrett, ...

Methods: Letter, Informal communication

Insurance Ireland

2025-01-21

Intent: To inform discussion of insurance issues within government, raising issues with legislation, providing details on the Irish Motor Insurance Database project, market research and ongoing consultations

Details: On behalf of members, to raise awareness of issues pertinent to the Irish motor insurance industry

Officials: Keith Walsh, Neale Richmond, Fiona Campbell, Ged Nash, Pearse Doherty, Jack Chambers, Peadar Tóibín, Marie Sherlock, ...

Methods: Event / Reception, Meeting, Letter, ...

Insurance Ireland

2025-01-21

Intent: To raise awareness of macro economic issues, general insurance, health insurance and pension policy affecting the insurance industry.

Details: On behalf of members, to issue the insurance sector's priorities for the General Election and new government.

Officials: Peadar Tóibín, Jim O'Callaghan, John McGuinness, Steven Matthews, Damien English, Bernard Durkan, Pearse Doherty, Rose Conway-Walsh, ...

Methods: Email, Letter, Meeting

An Taisce The National Trust for Ireland

2025-01-21

Intent: Request for enough time to be allocated to the Report Stage to allow for proper scrutiny of the new amendments given the scale and complexity of the Bill and that the Bill undergo an independent assessment against Aarhus Convention requirements

Details: Planning and Development Bill 2023

Officials: Garret Ahearn, Catherine Ardagh, Ivana Bacik, Frances Black, Niall Blaney, Victor Boyhan, Lynn Boylan, Nikki Bradley, ...

Methods: Email