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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)
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Declared items
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CRO-matched interests
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Awards to declared companies
2189
Lobbying returns
Reports for 2017–2025 (party) and 2020–2022 (members)
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SIPO donation records
312 of 422 divisions
74%
Vote participation

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SIPO donation reports 4

Lobbying returns

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Register of Lobbying2025-09-18

Lobbying return by Irish Foster Care Association

Social Protection
Intended results

Seeking their support in our ask to have the Back to School allowance made available to all Foster Carers and not to be means tested. We attached the letter we sent to Minister Foley also.

Derived link · Matched by exact company name

Published name "Irish Foster Care Association" equals CRO name "IRISH FOSTER CARE ASSOCIATION" (CRO 281419) 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 Lobbying2025-05-15

Lobbying return by Irish Association of Social Workers

Social Protection
Intended results

IASW asked for robust adult safeguarding legislation after the Brandon case. The Government failed to act. We asked for legislation after the Emily case. The government failed to act. We are asking for the Government to act now, in the wake of the Grace case

Derived link · Matched by name with added legal form

Published name "Irish Association of Social Workers" has no legal form. "IRISH ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS LIMITED" (CRO 347784) 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 Lobbying2025-01-15

Lobbying return by The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA

Social Protection
Intended results

To propose that, similar to recipients of the Jobseekers Benefit and Jobseekers Allowance, recipients of Farm Assist should receive credited social insurance contributions for pension purposes.::That Social insurance credits should be provided to farmers on Farm Assist before…