
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%.
Compare with the rest: search and sort all 719 MEPs, or see every MEP from Ireland.
Compared with the averages
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.
Busiest month: 26 declared in February 2025. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.
Who Maria Walsh meets most
| Declared counterpart | Meetings |
|---|---|
| Irish Farmers' Association | 17 |
| European Food Forum | 6 |
| Irish Co-operative Organisation Society Ltd. | 6 |
| Copa Cogeca | 5 |
| Ibec | 4 |
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
| Date | Counterpart | Capacity | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Sep 2026 | AIDA | Member | Palestine - Israel |
| 8 Sep 2026 | Dochas | Member | Dochas |
| 7 Sep 2026 | Meta | Member | Age Verification Online |
| 3 Sep 2026 | National Womens Council Ireland; Athlone Technological University | Member | Women's Health |
| 3 Sep 2026 | ILGA | Member | ILGA Europe |
| 16 Jul 2026 | Hologic BV ↗ | Member | Womens Health |
| 15 Jul 2026 | PayGap.ie | Member | Pay Gap |
| 15 Jul 2026 | NWCI | Member | SRHR |
| 14 Jul 2026 | Momentum Educate + Innovate | Member | Gender Equality Research |
| 29 Jun 2026 | Acumen Public Affairs ↗ | Member | Gender & Healthcare |
Show 20 more meetings
| Date | Counterpart | Capacity | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Jun 2026 | ECLAG | Member | CSAM |
| 24 Jun 2026 | Irish Farmers' Association ↗ | Member | Agriculture |
| 20 May 2026 | Copa Cogeca | Member | Agricultural Policy |
| 13 May 2026 | European Food Forum ↗ | Member | Agricultural Policy |
| 12 May 2026 | HIV Prevention Alliance | Member | HIV Prevention Alliance |
| 2 May 2026 | The Irish Natura And Hill Farmers Assocation ↗ | Member | Agricultural Policy |
| 28 Apr 2026 | University College Dublin – National University of Ireland, Dublin ↗; Irish Farmers' Association ↗ | Member | Agricultural Policy |
| 27 Apr 2026 | FRS Co-op | Member | Agricultural Policy |
| 21 Apr 2026 | CEJA - European Council of Young Farmers | Rapporteur | Agricultural Policy |
| 20 Apr 2026 | Oxfam Ireland | Member | Oxfam Ireland |
| 15 Apr 2026 | AGSI | Member | Social and Employment Rights of Irish Police Officers |
| 15 Apr 2026 | Data Protection Commission Ireland | Member | Data Protection |
| 14 Apr 2026 | Irish Farmers' Association ↗ | Member | Agricultural Policy |
| 10 Apr 2026 | Amnesty International Limited ↗ | Member | Migration |
| 5 Apr 2026 | Sligo Leader Partnership | Member | Local development |
| 1 Apr 2026 | International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements EU Regional Group ↗ | Member | Generational Renewal |
| 25 Mar 2026 | Copa & Cogeca | Member | Agricultural Policy |
| 19 Mar 2026 | European Milk Board ↗; Ibec ↗ | Member | Agricultural Policy |
| 19 Mar 2026 | ILGA Europe | Member | ILGA Europe |
| 18 Mar 2026 | MSD Animal Health | Member | Agricultural 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.
How they voted on final texts
Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.
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.
Final texts where Maria Walsh differed from the EPP majority
| Date | Text | Their vote | EPP majority |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 June 2026 | A10-0161/2026 – Tomáš Kubín – Commission proposal to the Council | Against | For |
| 17 June 2026 | A10-0160/2026 – Tomáš Kubín – Commission proposal to the Council | Abstained | For |
| 13 November 2025 | A10-0194/2025 – Evelyn Regner – Commission proposal | Against | For |
| 9 July 2025 | B10-0318/2025 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole) | For | Against |
| 17 June 2025 | A10-0101/2025 – Charles Goerens – Motion for a resolution (text as a whole) | For | Against |
| 22 May 2025 | A10-0087/2025 - Inese Vaidere - Proposition de la Commission | Abstained | For |
| 2 April 2025 | A10-0036/2025 – Željana Zovko – Draft Council decision | Against | For |
| 27 November 2024 | A10-0017/2024 – Siegfried Mureşan – Motion for a resolution | Abstained | For |
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:
- “Dochas” - likely Dochas (2 counterpart entrys)
- “IFPO” - likely Irish Fish Producers Organisation Limited (IFPO) (2 counterpart entrys)
- “Irish Farmers' Association” - likely Irish Farmers' Association (2 counterpart entrys)
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.