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Politician · TD · 34th Dáil

Hildegarde Naughton

Fine Gael

Constituency / panel
Galway West
Membership
2024-11-29 → current
Office
Minister for Education and Youth (2025-11-18 → current)
Office
Minister of State at the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth with responsibility for Disability (2025-01-23 → 2025-05-01)
Office
Minister of State at the Department of Children, Disability and Equality (2025-05-02 → 2025-11-18)

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 Lobbying2019-09-20

Lobbying return by Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - IACP

Education and Training
Intended results

Legislative change around the availability of therapeutic counselling to children in second-level institutions.

Register of Lobbying2019-09-20

Lobbying return by The Irish Society for Autism

Education and Training
Intended results

Raise awareness following a submission to the Committee

Derived link · Matched by exact company name

Published name "The Irish Society for Autism" equals CRO name "IRISH SOCIETY FOR AUTISM" (CRO 56574) after normalising legal forms such as Ltd = Limited. No other CRO company has this name. Names can be shared, so compare the address and dates on the CRO record.

Register of Lobbying2019-09-20

Lobbying return by Higher Education Colleges Association (HECA)

Education and Training
Intended results

To provide information in relation to academic bonding not already in the possession of the Oireachtas Joint and Select Committee of Education and Skills with a view to recognition of the Higher Education Colleges Association Protection of the Enrolled Learner Scheme (HECA PEL…

Register of Lobbying2019-09-20

Lobbying return by Chambers Ireland

Education and Training
Intended results

Highlighting our network's support for better, locally tailored, skills development and training iniatives, and the need for local skills censuses, and highlighting the very low labour participation rate of women aged 45+ and men aged aged 55+

Register of Lobbying2019-09-19

Lobbying return by Community Law & Mediation

Education and Training
Intended results

Regulation and oversight by the Department of Education of the use of reduced hours or timetabling by schools

Derived link · Matched by exact company name

Published name "Community Law & Mediation" equals CRO name "COMMUNITY LAW AND MEDIATION" (CRO 69771) after normalising legal forms such as Ltd = Limited. No other CRO company has this name. Names can be shared, so compare the address and dates on the CRO record.

Register of Lobbying2019-09-02

Lobbying return by AONTAS

Education and Training
Intended results

Working with several other organisations , the Central Remedial Clinic, Disability Federation of Ireland, Enable Ireland, Inclusion Ireland, Irish Wheelchair Association and Rehab, we want to see a reversal of the decision to be rid of the rehabilitative training allowance

Register of Lobbying2019-08-29

Lobbying return by Epilepsy Ireland

Education and Training
Intended results

Intended to update DPOs about the course and for them to potentially share details of same on their social media channels to widen the publicity of the course.

Register of Lobbying2019-05-20

Lobbying return by Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - IACP

Education and Training
Intended results

Legislative change around the availability of therapeutic counselling to children in second-level institutions.