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Politician · Senator · 27th Seanad

Michael McDowell

Unaffiliated

Constituency / panel
National University of Ireland
Membership
2025-01-29 → current
Committees
5 current, 4 ended — Seanad Select Committee on EU Scrutiny and Transparency; Committee on Members' Interests of Seanad Éireann; …
4
Declared items
1
CRO-matched interests
0
Awards to declared companies
543
Lobbying returns
Reports for 2017–2025 (party) and 2020–2022 (members)
0
SIPO donation records
75 of 221 divisions
34%
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 Lobbying2026-09-17

Lobbying return by Youth and Environment Europe

Environment
Intended results

Called on the Government to withdraw the Bill before Seanad Éireann and urged Senators and all members of the Oireachtas to oppose it due to concerns over its ISDS clauses and the trade agreements it would facilitate. Also called for rejection of trade agreements containing ISDS…

Register of Lobbying2025-01-21

Lobbying return by An Taisce The National Trust for Ireland

Environment
Intended results

Request for enough time to be allocated to the Report Stage to allow for proper scrutiny of the new amendments given the scale and complexity of the Bill and that the Bill undergo an independent assessment against Aarhus Convention requirements

Derived link · Matched by exact company name

Published name "An Taisce The National Trust for Ireland" equals CRO name "AN TAISCE - THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR IRELAND" (CRO 12469) 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 Lobbying2025-01-20

Lobbying return by An Taisce The National Trust for Ireland

Environment
Intended results

In the context of the discussion on the Seanad Order of Business, forwarded to the Senator the calls made to Green Party TDs and Senators to: oppose the guilotining of the Seanad Rpt stage of the Bill; seek a reivew of its Aarhus Compliance, reject the bill on its return to the…

Derived link · Matched by exact company name

Published name "An Taisce The National Trust for Ireland" equals CRO name "AN TAISCE - THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR IRELAND" (CRO 12469) 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 Lobbying2025-01-20

Lobbying return by An Taisce The National Trust for Ireland

Environment
Intended results

Request consideration of proposed amendments to the Government amendments at the Seanad Report stage of the bill, with a view to their submission on: commencement, ch 5 Pt 4, suspension of duration of permissions when s.t. JR - then s,,180, Part 9 on JR and the new…

Derived link · Matched by exact company name

Published name "An Taisce The National Trust for Ireland" equals CRO name "AN TAISCE - THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR IRELAND" (CRO 12469) 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 Lobbying2025-01-20

Lobbying return by An Taisce The National Trust for Ireland

Environment
Intended results

Request consideration of proposed amendments to the Government amendments at the Seanad Report stage of the bill, with a view to their submission on: commencement, ch 5 Pt 4, suspension of duration of permissions when s.t. JR - then s,,180, Part 9 on JR and the new…

Derived link · Matched by exact company name

Published name "An Taisce The National Trust for Ireland" equals CRO name "AN TAISCE - THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR IRELAND" (CRO 12469) 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 Lobbying2024-05-21

Lobbying return by Dublin Chamber of Commerce

Environment
Intended results

Engaged with Ministers, TDs and senators about matters pertaining to sustainability legislation and the difficulties SMEs have in engaging with grants and schemes.

Register of Lobbying2023-09-21

Lobbying return by Environmental Pillar

Environment
Intended results

That Irish elected representatives support greater ambition for within the negotiations with the European Commissions on the proposal for a regulation on Nature Restoration

Register of Lobbying2023-05-16

Lobbying return by Environmental Pillar

Environment
Intended results

That Irish elected representatives support greater ambition for within the negotiations with the European Commissions on the proposal for a regulation on Nature Restoration

Register of Lobbying2023-01-20

Lobbying return by Environmental Pillar

Environment
Intended results

That Irish elected representatives support greater ambition for within the negotiations with the European Commissions on the proposal for a regulation on Nature Restoration::That Irish elected representatives support greater ambition for Ireland's peatlands within the…

Register of Lobbying2022-05-20

Lobbying return by Environmental Pillar

Environment
Intended results

To highlight concerns on: gaps in the proposed exemption in respect of protection for achitecturally sensitive sites, their potential to drive vacancy; the potential impacts to bats as a protected species together with their breeding and resting places, and impacts to certain…

Register of Lobbying2022-05-20

Lobbying return by Environmental Pillar

Environment
Intended results

Simply briefly noted that similar issues might arise in these provisions ito the concerns Planning and Development ( Exempted Development ) Regulations - SI 75/2022 - for eg in respect of impacts to bats and their breeding and resting plances and nests of certain bird species…

Register of Lobbying2022-03-03

Lobbying return by Social Justice Ireland

Environment
Intended results

To support Ireland's progress towards the 2030 agenda by engaging further with the SDGs and policy proposals on how to implement them at local and national level.

Register of Lobbying2021-09-19

Lobbying return by The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA

Environment
Intended results

To welcome the decision at Committee stage in the Seanad to accept two amendments to the Climate Action Bill.::To acknowledge the FG and FF senators, whose amendments were put down and followed up, which have now been accepted by the Government.::To highlight that there are…