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Member of the European Parliament · Ireland EPP

Maria Walsh

MEP for Ireland · European People's Party · Fine Gael Party · official EP profile

As of 14 September 2026, Maria Walsh (EPP, Ireland) has declared 204 lobby meetings this term - rank 79 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.

That is one of the fuller declaration sheets in the Parliament - 2.4× the average member, and 27 of 185 within European People's Party.

48% of this MEP's declared counterpart entries, including diplomatic and government entries, carry a declared EU Transparency Register link - close to the like-for-like raw Parliament-wide share of 51%.

204
declared meetings
current term
282
records since 2019
full dataset
48%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
79/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
27/185
rank in EPP

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Compared with the averages

Maria Walsh, this term
204
Parliament average
85
EPP average
94

Transparency this term

Monthly declared meetings (bars) and the share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link, including diplomatic and government entries (line), July 2024 to September 2026. This is the same current-term window as the figures above, beginning 16 July 2024.

Current month, partial through 11 Sep 2026: 5 declared meetings in Sep 2026, 0% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register link. Peak: 26 in Feb 2025.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 3 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 14 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 13 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 3 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 9 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 6 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 26 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 21 declared meetingsApril 2025: 21 declared meetingsMay 2025: 5 declared meetingsJune 2025: 9 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 11 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 5 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 4 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 7 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 4 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 7 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 2 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 8 declared meetingsApril 2026: 10 declared meetingsMay 2026: 4 declared meetingsJune 2026: 3 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 4 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 5 declared meetingsnew termMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkJuly 2024: 66.7% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register linkSeptember 2026: 0% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register link202420252026
declared meetings per monthall counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link; diplomacy included (right axis)

Busiest month: 26 declared in February 2025. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Maria Walsh meets most

Counterparts are merged by resolved Transparency Register identity where possible. An entry counts as register-linked above only when the MEP declaration itself carries a Register link.

Where the meetings cluster

Most-met sectors

Agriculture & food (52), Health & pharma (24), Human rights & humanitarian (17)

Meetings by committee topic

Agriculture and Rural Development (79), Women's Rights and Gender Equality (23), Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (18), Regional Development (6), Fisheries (3), Culture and Education (2)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
8 Sep 2026AIDAMemberPalestine - Israel
8 Sep 2026DochasMemberDochas
7 Sep 2026MetaMemberAge Verification Online
3 Sep 2026National Womens Council Ireland; Athlone Technological UniversityMemberWomen's Health
3 Sep 2026ILGAMemberILGA Europe
16 Jul 2026Hologic BV MemberWomens Health
15 Jul 2026PayGap.ieMemberPay Gap
15 Jul 2026NWCIMemberSRHR
14 Jul 2026Momentum Educate + InnovateMemberGender Equality Research
29 Jun 2026Acumen Public Affairs MemberGender & Healthcare
Show 20 more meetings
DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
25 Jun 2026ECLAGMemberCSAM
24 Jun 2026Irish Farmers' Association MemberAgriculture
20 May 2026Copa CogecaMemberAgricultural Policy
13 May 2026European Food Forum MemberAgricultural Policy
12 May 2026HIV Prevention AllianceMemberHIV Prevention Alliance
2 May 2026The Irish Natura And Hill Farmers Assocation MemberAgricultural Policy
28 Apr 2026University College Dublin – National University of Ireland, Dublin ; Irish Farmers' Association MemberAgricultural Policy
27 Apr 2026FRS Co-opMemberAgricultural Policy
21 Apr 2026CEJA - European Council of Young FarmersRapporteurAgricultural Policy
20 Apr 2026Oxfam IrelandMemberOxfam Ireland
15 Apr 2026AGSIMemberSocial and Employment Rights of Irish Police Officers
15 Apr 2026Data Protection Commission IrelandMemberData Protection
14 Apr 2026Irish Farmers' Association MemberAgricultural Policy
10 Apr 2026Amnesty International Limited MemberMigration
5 Apr 2026Sligo Leader PartnershipMemberLocal development
1 Apr 2026International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements EU Regional Group MemberGenerational Renewal
25 Mar 2026Copa & CogecaMemberAgricultural Policy
19 Mar 2026European Milk Board ; Ibec MemberAgricultural Policy
19 Mar 2026ILGA EuropeMemberILGA Europe
18 Mar 2026MSD Animal HealthMemberAgricultural Policy

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Maria Walsh held the seat, 537 of them the final vote on a text. A member with no vote recorded may have been on parliamentary business, ill, on leave, or present without voting - the published record does not distinguish these and gives no reason. Votes taken by show of hands or by secret ballot are not recorded by name and are absent here.

85%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
474
final texts voted on
of 537
98%
voted with the EPP majority
on 470 final texts
8
differed from EPP
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Maria Walsh537 final votes
77%10%12%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 470 final texts where more than half of EPP members casting a vote went one way, and Maria Walsh also voted. Groups are not bound to vote together: a Member's mandate is personal and exercised freely, so neither figure is a measure of performance.

Voted with the EPP majority46298%
Voted differently82%

Final texts where Maria Walsh differed from the EPP majority

DateTextTheir voteEPP majority
17 June 2026A10-0161/2026 – Tomáš Kubín – Commission proposal to the CouncilAgainstFor
17 June 2026A10-0160/2026 – Tomáš Kubín – Commission proposal to the CouncilAbstainedFor
13 November 2025A10-0194/2025 – Evelyn Regner – Commission proposalAgainstFor
9 July 2025B10-0318/2025 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)ForAgainst
17 June 2025A10-0101/2025 – Charles Goerens – Motion for a resolution (text as a whole)ForAgainst
22 May 2025A10-0087/2025 - Inese Vaidere - Proposition de la CommissionAbstainedFor
2 April 2025A10-0036/2025 – Željana Zovko – Draft Council decisionAgainstFor
27 November 2024A10-0017/2024 – Siegfried Mureşan – Motion for a resolutionAbstainedFor

Unlinked but matchable

41 counterpart entrys in Maria Walsh's declarations appear to match an EU Transparency Register entry without being linked in the declaration:

Matching is automated and can be wrong - see how matching works. Linking the register entry is the fix, and it is the MEP office's to make.