Freight Transport Association of Ireland (Freight Transport Association of Ireland)

Lobbying Organisation Freight Transport Association of Ireland

Date published 15 May, 2017

Relevant Matter Public policy or programme

Public Policy Area Transport

Period 1 Jan, 2017 to 30 Apr, 2017

Specific Details Cost of Insurance

Intended results To get the Minister of State at Department of Finance to speak at the FTA Ireland annual Transport Manager on 30th March 2017

Name of person primarily responsible for lobbying on this activity Aidan Flynn

Did any Designated Public Official(DPO) or former Designated Public Official(DPO) carry out lobbying activities on your behalf in relation to this return? You must include yourself, and answer Yes, if you are a current DPO or a DPO at any time in the past. (What is a Designated Public Official?) No

Did you manage or direct a grassroots campaign? No

Was this lobbying done on behalf of a client? No

Lobbying activity

The following activities occurred for this specific Subject Matter Area.

Email (2-5)

Emails sent requesting the Minister for state to be keynote speaker at our event on the 30th March and to meet to introduce FTAI and discuss (briefly) the cost of insursance issues facing our members

Meeting (1)

Meeting on the 21st of March to introduce FTAI and discuss cost of insurance issues in advance of FTAI TMS on the 30th March 2017

Designated public officials lobbied

The following DPOs were lobbied during this return period on this specific Subject Matter Area. These DPOs were involved in at least one of the Lobbying Activities listed above, but not necessarily all of them. As returns are specific to a Subject Matter Area the above Lobbying Activities may be associated with multiple returns.

Eoghan Murphy Minister of State (Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)