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Politician · TD · 34th Dáil

Martin Heydon

Fine Gael

Constituency / panel
Kildare South
Membership
2024-11-29 → current
Office
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2025-01-23 → current)
6
Declared items
0
CRO-matched interests
0
Awards to declared companies
2526
Lobbying returns
Reports for 2017–2025 (party) and 2020–2022 (members)
7
SIPO donation records
383 of 422 divisions
91%
Vote participation

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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 Lobbying2020-09-18

Lobbying return by Ibec

Agriculture
Intended results

Improvements to forestry policy, including; increase in speed of the forestry licensing process, applications of more resources to the appropriate assessment process and improvements to the operating procedures of the Forestry Appeals Committee, changes to the Ash Dieback…

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 Lobbying2020-05-21

Lobbying return by The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA

Agriculture
Intended results

That the Department of Agriculture would suspend the 5% production reduction requirement under the BEAM scheme as a result of the restrictions placed on farmers from COVID-19::To demonstrate that with marts closed and not operating normally, the movement and value of stock is…

Register of Lobbying2020-05-21

Lobbying return by Beefplan Movement

Agriculture
Intended results

1.Nominees for Task Force 2. Irish/ Algerian Government co-operation for Animal Transport

Derived link · Matched by name with added legal form

Published name "Beefplan Movement" has no legal form. "BEEF PLAN MOVEMENT COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE" (CRO 640399) 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 Lobbying2020-01-21

Lobbying return by Vulcan Consulting Limited

Agriculture
Intended results

Improvement to forestry policy and programmes

Derived link · Matched by exact company name

Published name "Vulcan Consulting Limited" equals CRO name "VULCAN CONSULTING LIMITED" (CRO 578963) 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 Lobbying2020-01-20

Lobbying return by The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA

Agriculture
Intended results

Income Averaging 'Step-Out' flexibility: that a farmer should be allowed to ‘step-out’ of income averaging more than once in a five-year period, where they are not carrying an unpaid deferred tax amount from a previous ‘step-out’, providing a strong incentive to repay the…

Register of Lobbying2020-01-19

Lobbying return by The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA

Agriculture
Intended results

Brexit support - beef farmers: in addition to the €100m (EU Commission €50m, National Government €50m) further direct support for farmers will be needed to deal with losses incurred, particularly for beef farmers, post May 2019. These ongoing losses are due to the decline in the…

Register of Lobbying2020-01-19

Lobbying return by The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA

Agriculture
Intended results

To demonstrate the challenges facing farmers in the farming low-income sector::To make the case for an increased CAP Budget::That the Government and EU response must match the Brexit threat::That round table beef talks would take place to address unviable prices by meat…

Register of Lobbying2020-01-07

Lobbying return by Irish Thoroughbred Breeders' Association

Agriculture
Intended results

The Irish Thoroughbred Breeders Association was lobbying on our budget submission which was seeking to get tax incentives for breeders in Budget 2020

Derived link · Matched by name with added legal form

Published name "Irish Thoroughbred Breeders' Association" has no legal form. "IRISH THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE" (CRO 763843) 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 Lobbying2020-01-07

Lobbying return by Irish Thoroughbred Breeders' Association

Agriculture
Intended results

The Irish Thoroughbred Breeders Association was lobbying on our budget submission which was seeking to get tax incentives for breeders in Budget 2020

Derived link · Matched by name with added legal form

Published name "Irish Thoroughbred Breeders' Association" has no legal form. "IRISH THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE" (CRO 763843) 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.