It's reasonable to guess that the innovation taskforce[0] that Brian Cowan has announced will form an opinion about patents and IT/computers/software.
[0] http://www.ireland.com/home/Taoiseach_establishes_innovation_taskforce/maxi/...
Does anyone have ideas on who to contact or how to approach this?
Being optimistic, there's a possibility that they'll conclude that software patents are anti-innovation, like the UK government's independent study did in 2005: http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Gowers_Review_of_Intellectual_Property
But being a bit more cautious: the membership is mostly people decision makers in universities, and they're under huge pressure to be profitable this year. So it's possible that royalties and appeasing MS+IBM might take preference over innovation, freedom, progress, etc.