Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We are now excluding the possibility of including people who lobby Ministers when they are outside the State. We are excluding organisations from outside the State from being captured under this legislation if they lobby a Minister. Following discussion on one of the earlier amendments yesterday evening, the Minister excluded lobbying for positions on State boards from being included in the legislation as well.

While the legislation contains some good items, the public bodies we tried to include earlier on, such as EirGrid, energy regulation and Irish Water, have all been excluded. We have now excluded the top echelons of the public service from the legislation.

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