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Politician · TD · 34th Dáil

Darragh O'Brien

Fianna Fáil

Constituency / panel
Dublin Fingal East
Membership
2024-11-29 → current
Office
Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications (2025-01-23 → 2025-06-01)
Office
Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2025-06-02 → current)
Office
Minister for Transport (2025-06-02 → current)
Office
Minister for Transport (2025-01-23 → 2025-06-01)
0
Declared items
0
CRO-matched interests
0
Awards to declared companies
3830
Lobbying returns
Reports for 2017–2025 (party) and 2020–2022 (members)
1
SIPO donation records
302 of 422 divisions
72%
Vote participation

Lobbying returns

Returns filed on the Register of Lobbying, newest first, with the policy area and intended results as the lobbyist published them.

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Register of Lobbying2017-01-20

Lobbying return by Dublin Chamber of Commerce

Budgetary matters
Intended results

Begin to tackle bottlenecks to growth by accelerating productive infrastructure investment by €500m in 2017.::Stabilise housing demand and affordability as supply increases by introducing a first time buyer savings scheme.::Increase the number of scaling businesses in Ireland by…

Register of Lobbying2017-01-20

Lobbying return by Dublin Chamber of Commerce

Budgetary matters
Intended results

Triple the capital investment envelope for projects in the Greater Dublin Area.::Create a strategy to address the transport 'bottlenecks' that will impact on the short, medium and long term competitiveness of the region.::Fund a regional implementation plan to ensure the…

Register of Lobbying2017-01-20

Lobbying return by Dublin Chamber of Commerce

Local Government
Intended results

Ensure joined up thinking across the local authorities of County Dublin and Greater Dublin Area.::Create policies that make Dublin more attractive for residents, commuters, visitors and employers as it competes with other international city regions.::Development of a long-term…

Register of Lobbying2017-01-20

Lobbying return by Insurance Ireland

Banking and Financial Institutions
Intended results

To request the speedy transfer of regulatory approval from a foreign jurisdiction to Ireland, specifically through the introduction of an initial 'grandfathering' clause to allow companies to trade from Ireland.

Register of Lobbying2017-01-20

Lobbying return by The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA

Finance
Intended results

To tackle income volatility:::- Extension of income averaging where farmer’s spouse is self-employed - where a spouse of a farmer has a fully separable source of income from self-employment, income averaging should be allowed on the farm profits.::- Individualising income…

Register of Lobbying2017-01-20

Lobbying return by The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA

Agriculture
Intended results

Agri-Environment Schemes - GLAS - that funding of €250m is allocated for agri-environment schemes in Budget 2017, with full payments for all GLAS, AEOS and oranic scheme participants::Areas of Natural Constraints - that funding is increased by €25m in Budget 2017, to €225m, This…

Register of Lobbying2017-01-20

Lobbying return by The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA

Banking and Financial Institutions
Intended results

To provide low cost loans to farmers to alleviate cashflow pressures across all sectors::That these loans would be available to farmers from January 2017::That the Minister for Agriculture communicates with the Strategic Banking Corporation (SBCI) to urge greater engagement with…

Register of Lobbying2017-01-20

Lobbying return by eircom Limited

Communications
Intended results

To ensure that the scale and speed of eir's current and planned investment in high-speed broadband on a nation-wide basis is fully understood among Oireachtas members

Register of Lobbying2017-01-20

Lobbying return by Traders in the area supporting the cultural quarter limited t/a The Temple Bar Company

Justice and Equality
Intended results

To make the various TD's and senators aware of the concerns our members had with regards the proposal to open a supervised injecting centre in Dublin City Centre

Register of Lobbying2017-01-20

Lobbying return by Q4PR

Health
Intended results

To ensure understanding of industry perspective on proposed legislation and policy change.

Derived link · Matched by name with added legal form

Published name "Q4PR" has no legal form. "Q4 PR LIMITED" (CRO 371427) is the only CRO company with that name plus any legal form (Limited, DAC, UC, CLG, PLC or Teoranta). Confirm against the CRO record before relying on it.

Register of Lobbying2017-01-20

Lobbying return by Ibec

Tourism
Intended results

To promote understanding the economic potential of Irish Whiskey Tourism in Ireland.

Derived link · Matched by name with added legal form

Published name "Ibec" has no legal form. "IBEC COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE" (CRO 8706) is the only CRO company with that name plus any legal form (Limited, DAC, UC, CLG, PLC or Teoranta). Confirm against the CRO record before relying on it.

Register of Lobbying2017-01-20

Lobbying return by Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice

Environment
Intended results

Renewed commitment and plan of action for the Government's target of an 80% reduction in emissions between transport, energy and buildings::Renewed commitment and plan of action for the Government's target of carbon neutrality for agriculture by 2050::The National Climate Change…