How does Tractivity compare to spreadsheets for managing Irish stakeholder consultations?

Spreadsheets create four critical problems for Irish organisations at scale: no central audit trail, no compliance evidence for statutory consultations, no real-time visibility across project teams, and judicial review exposure when organisations cannot produce a complete timestamped engagement record. Tractivity solves all four with one integrated platform.

Which Irish sectors and organisation types use Tractivity?

Tractivity is suited to Irish public bodies, local authorities, utilities, infrastructure organisations, approved housing bodies, government departments and nonprofits. Across Ireland and the UK, organisations in energy, transport, water, planning and the public sector use Tractivity for large-scale stakeholder engagement and consultation management.

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Q: How does Tractivity support Irish statutory consultation requirements?

Irish planning, environmental and procurement legislation — including the Planning and Development Act 2024 — requires organisations to conduct structured, documented public consultations. Tractivity provides a complete consultation management workflow: stakeholder identification and segmentation, multi-channel communications, real-time response tracking, sentiment analysis and reportable engagement records exportable for An Bord Pleanála hearings and judicial review proceedings.

Building relationships with your stakeholders and ensuring they are engaged can be hard work. Managing engagement using disconnected tools, emails, spreadsheets and files, all adding up to an ineffective and time-consuming process. But there is a better way. Tractivity replaces all those fragmented tools and allows you to manage your engagement centrally across your organisation as a whole by projects or departments. With a centralised view of your stakeholders and engagements, your entire team can easily access stakeholder records across programs, projects, campaigns or departments, what they said, how they feel about certain issues and what conversations have happened with them. Plan your strategy and set your engagement objectives, identify and categorise your stakeholders with stakeholder mapping, manage events, surveys, newsletters, gather feedback, track responses, and understand issues and sentiment. Measure and report on every step of your engagement plan, helping you build key relationships with your stakeholders. Bring your work under one roof so can free up time to focus on what matters. People are at the heart of Tractivity and of our system, and we're here support your journey to deliver impact through improved stakeholder engagement.

Creating impact matters to every organisation.

As the leading stakeholder management, communications and engagement software in Europe and the UK, Tractivity helps Irish public bodies, local authorities, utilities and infrastructure organisations engage, listen, deliver insights and achieve sustained positive outcomes.

Our solution is fully EU GDPR-compliant, supervised by Ireland's Data Protection Commission, and enterprise-grade safe.

Discover how our cloud-based software can support all your stakeholder database needs, engagement activities and consultation projects in Ireland.

Built for the challenges facing Irish organisations

Ireland's public sector, utilities and infrastructure sector face some of the most complex stakeholder engagement environments in Europe.

Local authorities managing planning consultations under the Planning and Development Act 2024, Irish Water coordinating community engagement across national infrastructure projects, Irish grid operators running statutory consultation processes and approved housing bodies managing resident and regulator relationships; all operate in an environment where structured, evidenced engagement is not optional.

Yet many Irish organisations still manage their stakeholder relationships through shared inboxes, spreadsheets and disconnected email tools. That creates missed contacts, incomplete engagement records and no audit trail when a judicial review, regulatory inquiry or board governance review asks how you engaged your stakeholders.

Tractivity gives Irish public bodies, local authorities, utilities and infrastructure organisations one platform to manage every stakeholder relationship, evidence every engagement, and deliver the reporting their regulators, funders and project teams require; from initial consultation through to post-project review.

Manage projects and stakeholder consultations

With Tractivity, you get access to the most relevant and practical tools to deliver impactful communications to your stakeholders across Ireland.

Engage and capture all interactions and run successful projects, including planning consultations, infrastructure projects, and community engagement and public participation processes, from start to finish within Tractivity. Create engaging content, monitor your entire stakeholder landscape and bring the insights you need.

Tractivity gives you the tools to be creative, engaging, and to communicate your success.

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Listen to your stakeholders

Demonstrating you are listening to your stakeholders is powerful; showing you are acting on what they say is invaluable.

We understand that listening well is a powerful means of communication and influence, and that Irish planning legislation, public participation requirements and regulatory frameworks make structured listening a legal as well as operational necessity.

Our system gives you the confidence to actively listen, respond, and manage potential issues. Easily track, group, and prioritise sentiments and issues to respond accordingly. We make it easier for you to listen.

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Simplify your stakeholder engagement

Knowing how and when your stakeholders like to be communicated with enables you to foster more meaningful engagements.

Using separate tools to communicate with your stakeholders can lead to fragmented engagement, a particular risk for Irish public bodies managing consultations under statutory timeframes. With our dashboard, you have the power to analyse all activities across your engagement channels, giving you visibility against your KPIs.

Centralise your stakeholder engagement and obtain clarity to drive change across your Irish operations.

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Improve your stakeholder engagement

Manage and communicate with your stakeholders more effectively. Map their level of interest and influence and segment them according to location, role, authority, credibility and other relevant criteria, including Oireachtas members, county councillors, statutory consultees and community representatives.

From one-on-one communication to mass distribution lists, our system enables you to engage with each stakeholder group in the best way according to your segmentation.

Tractivity captures all your stakeholder interactions along with each project or consultation phase, so you can understand how engagement with your project evolves.

Support better results for your Irish projects with Tractivity.

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Stakeholder management software for Ireland - FAQs

What is stakeholder management software and how is it used in Ireland? Stakeholder management software gives organisations a single platform to manage, communicate with and record engagement across all their stakeholder groups. In Ireland, it is used by local authorities running statutory planning consultations, utilities and infrastructure companies managing public engagement for major projects, approved housing bodies coordinating resident and regulator relationships, and public bodies managing community, Oireachtas and media relations. Tractivity replaces fragmented emails and spreadsheets with one system that captures every interaction, automates communications and generates the audit-ready reports Irish regulators and funders require.

How does Tractivity support Irish statutory consultation requirements? Irish planning, environmental and procurement legislation, including the Planning and Development Act 2024, requires organisations to conduct structured, documented public consultations. Tractivity provides a complete consultation management workflow: stakeholder identification and segmentation, multi-channel communications (email, surveys, letters), real-time response tracking, sentiment analysis and reportable engagement records. Every consultation interaction is logged and exportable, giving Irish organisations an auditable evidence base for regulatory submissions, An Bord Pleanála hearings and judicial review proceedings.

Is Tractivity EU GDPR-compliant and suitable for Irish public sector organisations? Yes. Tractivity is fully compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), supervised in Ireland by the Data Protection Commission (DPC). The platform includes built-in consent management, data subject request handling, subscription tracking and data processing agreements. Irish public sector organisations operating under the Data Protection Acts 1988–2018 and EU GDPR can use Tractivity with confidence that their stakeholder data is managed in full compliance with Irish and EU data protection law.

Can Tractivity manage engagement for large-scale Irish infrastructure projects? Yes. Tractivity is designed for high-volume, complex stakeholder landscapes. Irish infrastructure projects, including national grid connections, water infrastructure, transport and housing developments, typically involve hundreds of statutory consultees, community groups, elected representatives, landowners and media contacts. Tractivity handles this scale with contact segmentation by location and interest, phased project management tools, mass communication with individual response tracking, and real-time dashboards showing engagement status across all stakeholder groups and project phases.

How does Tractivity compare to using spreadsheets for managing Irish stakeholder consultations? Spreadsheets are the most common starting point for Irish stakeholder management but create four critical problems at scale: (1) no central audit trail, individual engagement records exist in different files and inboxes; (2) no compliance evidence, statutory consultations require demonstrable, documented outreach that spreadsheets cannot reliably provide; (3) no real-time visibility, project teams cannot see current engagement status across all stakeholders; (4) judicial review exposure, in the event of a legal challenge, organisations cannot produce a complete, timestamped engagement record. Tractivity solves all four.

Which Irish organisations and sectors use Tractivity? Tractivity is used by Irish public bodies, local authorities, utilities, infrastructure organisations, housing bodies and regulators, as well as nonprofit, charity and voluntary sector organisations. Across Ireland and the UK, organisations including EDF Energy, Network Rail, the NHS and Scottish Power Renewables use Tractivity for large-scale stakeholder engagement. Irish sector prospects include county and city councils, Irish Water, Eirgrid, Gas Networks Ireland, approved housing bodies, Government Departments and semi-state organisations with public engagement obligations.

Does Tractivity integrate with existing Irish public sector systems and tools? Yes. Tractivity integrates with Microsoft Outlook and shared mailboxes for email-based stakeholder detection, and is compatible with standard Irish public sector IT environments. The platform is cloud-based and browser-accessible, with no local installation required, important for multi-site Irish local authority and utility teams. API integrations and data export capabilities allow Tractivity to connect with CRM, GIS and project management tools used by Irish infrastructure and public sector organisations.

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Creating impact matters to every organisation.

Built for the challenges facing Irish organisations

Stakeholder engagement strategy for long-term impact

Manage projects and stakeholder consultations

Listen to your stakeholders

Simplify your stakeholder engagement

Improve your stakeholder engagement

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