Lobbying Records (Page 1 of 5)
Licensed Vintners Association
2024-01-10
Intent: Amendment to qualification criteria - increase in qualification threshold.
Details: Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) grant
Officials: Leo Varadkar, Micheál Martin, Eamon Ryan, Paschal Donohoe, Michael McGrath, Catherine Martin, Darragh O'Brien, Simon Coveney, ...
Methods: emails to Cabinet, Dublin TDs and Senators and Government advisors - all listed below - Email, Meeting with Minister Coveney and advisors - Meeting
Bauer Media Audio Ireland
2024-01-05
Intent: to secure changes to the EU Council’s General Approah to require providers of user interfaces (including providers of in-car infotainment systems) to ensure that audio content services from licensed providers are granted appropriate discoverability and are easy to find.
Details: European Media Freedom Act
Officials: Catherine Martin, Tríona Quill, Tanya Warren
Methods: Email sent to Minister Catherine Martin and senior department officials on wednesday 11th October - Email
Ibec
2023-09-20
Intent: Communicate and ensure understanding of business position and the need for specific economic supports to ensure a sustainable future for businesses in the Experience Economy.
Details: Policy recommendations required to support Experience Economy
Officials: Catherine Martin, Tanya Warren, Cian Ó Lionáin, Katherine Licken
Methods: Virtual Meeting, Email
Screen Composers Guild of Ireland
2023-09-20
Intent: Inclusion of music in section 481. Support for composers in implementation of copyright directive into market practice, introduction of AVMS (Audio Video Media Services) levy on streamers and general awareness raising on composer and screen creatives issues
Details: Round table screen industry meeting with Minister Catherine Martin and Department officials
Officials: Catherine Martin, Tanya Warren
Methods: Meeting
Licensed Vintners Association
2023-09-11
Intent: Reduction in excise; return of VAT 9% on food; cuts to SEO costs; energy supports for the licensed trade and the longer term, sustained investment in specific challenges facing Dublin - visible Garda presence, street cleaning and transport, particularly for the night-time economy
Details: Budget 2024
Officials: Leo Varadkar, Brian Murphy, Micheál Martin, Deirdre Gillane, Helen McEntee, Fiach Kelly, Eamon Ryan, Claire Byrne, ...
Methods: 31.07.23 cover email with LVA Submission on Budget 2024 - Email, Submission
BiggerStage
2023-05-21
Intent: To update Ministers on the potential for Foreign Direct Investment in unscripted production in Ireland and its potential for job creation and investment in infrastructure
Details: The development of the unscripted production sector in Ireland
Officials: Michael McGrath, Catherine Martin, Kevin Barrett, Grant Sweetnam, Tanya Warren, Stephen Foley, John Hogan, Juno McEnroe, ...
Methods: A letter was sent to the Minister for Finance and his officials with a BiggerStage commissioned report by PWC on Ireland's Unscripted Production Sector attached. A soft copy of this communication and report were also sent via email. - Letter, A letter was sent to the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and her officials with a BiggerStage commissioned report by PWC on Ireland's Unscripted Production Sector attached. A soft copy of this communication and report were also sent via email. - Letter, A letter was sent to the Minister of State at the Dept. Finance and her officials with a BiggerStage commissioned report by PWC on Ireland's Unscripted Production Sector attached. A soft copy of this communication and report were also sent via email. - Letter, ...
Threshold
2023-05-18
Intent: To discuss the Short-Term Let Registration Bill and support its passage through the Oireachtas.
Details: Meeting with the DPOs requested. Meeting held with Department officials.
Officials: Catherine Martin, Tanya Warren, Juno McEnroe
Methods: A letter was attached to this email. - Email, Met with members of the Department of Housing who are not DPOs - Virtual Meeting
Licensed Vintners Association
2023-05-18
Intent: Extensions to VAT 9% and TBESS
Details: Seeking VAT 9% and TBESS extensions
Officials: Leo Varadkar, Micheál Martin, Catherine Martin, Simon Coveney, Paschal Donohoe, Michael McGrath, Eamon Ryan, Kevin Barrett, ...
Methods: Email, 1. Hospitality & Tourism Forum2. Ministers McGrath & Donohoe - Virtual Meeting, Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party - Meeting
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
2023-05-17
Intent: Meetings on 13th February & 16th March 2023: to communicate the need for interim funding for RTÉ pending a sustainable funding model and to communicate issues and concerns regarding funding of public service broadcasting.::Meeting on 25th April 2023: to communicate the urgency and need for clarity around licence fee reform.
Details: Subject matters: RTÉ current and future funding and licence fee.
Officials: Catherine Martin, Katherine Licken, Tríona Quill, Tanya Warren
Methods: Date: 13 February 2023 Location: RTÉ In attendance:Minister Catherine Martin; Secretary General, Katherine Licken; Department officials: Triona Quill and Stephen Ryan. RTÉ:Dee Forbes, Director General, Siún Ni Raghallaigh, RTÉ Chair, Richard Waghorn, Director of Operations, Technology and Transformation & Vivienne Flood, Head of Public Affairs Strategy.Subject matter: RTÉ current and future funding. - Meeting, Date: 16th March 2023.Online meeting.In attendance: Secretary General, Katherine Licken; Department official, Triona Quill.RTÉ:Dee Forbes, Director General; Rory Coveney, Head of Strategy.Subject matter: RTÉ current and future funding. - Virtual Meeting, Date: 25th April 2023Location: Dublin 2In attendance: Tanya Warren, Special Adviser.RTÉ: Vivienne Flood, Head of Public Affairs Strategy.Subject matter: update on Licence Fee Reform deliberations and to provide greater clarity as to the timelines of upcoming deliberations. - Meeting
Ibec
2023-01-21
Intent: Ensure awareness of Technology Ireland concerns regarding the overlap and divergence between the Online Safety and Media Regulations (OSMR) bill and the Digital Services Act (DSA).
Details: Digital Services Act and Online Safety and Media Regulations bill Overlap and Divergence
Officials: Micheál Martin, Deirdre Gillane, Diarmuid Lynch, Leo Varadkar, Sarah O'Neill, Clare Mungovan, Bríd Murphy, Paschal Donohoe, ...
Methods: Letter