Representative
Senator
Fine Gael
Seanad Éireann
IE - - Dublin 2
Ireland
Working language: English
30/04/2025 - Monitoring Ending a fact-finding visit, PACE monitors welcome North Macedonia’s progress in meeting Council of Europe commitments 17/04/2025 - Monitoring Post-monitoring visit of PACE rapporteurs to North Macedonia 16/04/2025 - Election observation PACE pre-election mission to Poland: wide voter choice amid concerns over polarisation, electoral integrity and security 05/12/2024 - Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development PACE seminar in Italy on protecting children against online violence 19/04/2024 - Session PACE urges new laws to protect children online
10/04/2025 | 15:43:28 Thank you, President. I am honoured to speak on behalf of the Group of the European People's Party. At the outset, may I again stress our abhorrence of 7 October 2023 Hamas atrocities. We are equally abhorrent of the completely disproportionate and obscene Israeli response. We have had 18 months of genocide, physical destruction of schools, hospitals and universities and thousands and thousands of homes raised to the ground. The greatest victims are women and children. This is confirmed by... 28/01/2025 | 17:34:34 Could I begin, Mister President, by congratulating my colleague Fiona on that fine address? Might I, first of all, welcome the report and again say that its focus is on the humanitarian situation, with particular reference to women and children. Ireland welcomes the agreement and the ceasefire, as do all right-thinking people here. We are glad that food entered Gaza on Sunday, 19 January after months of blocking. We cannot escape the reality – and the tragic reality – that 43 000 lives were... 01/10/2024 | 19:55:50 Thank you, President. It is my privilege on behalf of the Group of the European People's Party (EPP) to welcome the report as it both pertains to the internal situation in Iran and the external situation in Europe of exiled Iranians. And in my short few remarks, I propose to address both questions. I congratulate both Max and Mariia, and there is a slight generational divide between myself and Max, but I think he has proposed the report very well. Now, since the change of leadership in Iran... 01/10/2024 | 19:20:34 Thank you, President. At the outset, could I just briefly congratulate Ms Saskia KLUIT on her report and on her fine exposition of it? May I remind us all that we are primarily a human rights organisation, where the rule of law, democracy and human rights are sacrosanct. We should suspend geopolitical and ideological divides, and we should unite around those core principles and values on this question. We should recognise that in Gaza, we've had an effective genocide with the death of 40 000... 01/10/2024 | 18:31:45 Freedom House has designated Azerbaijan as one of the most authoritarian states. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)'s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) have grave reservations about the recent elections establishing firmly a family monarchy. Arbitrary arrests, indefinite detentions, severe beatings and torture are a common feature. Three hundred and nineteen individuals are in prison on political charges. At the heart of all of this is...
27/03/2024 | Doc. 15954 | Report The protection of children against online violence 06/04/2023 | Doc. 15737 | Report The honouring of membership obligations to the Council of Europe by San Marino 15/02/2022 | Doc. 15454 | Report Addiction to prescribed medicines 10/06/2020 | Doc. 15114 | Committee Opinion Drug policy and human rights in Europe: a baseline study
08/10/2024 | Doc. 16062 | Motion for a resolution Strengthening freedom of expression: an imperative for the consolidation and development of democratic societies 02/10/2024 | Doc. 16057 | Written declaration Hold Kazakhstan accountable for its transnational and domestic repression 24/04/2024 | Doc. 15914 | Written declaration Israel Gaza conflict 24/04/2024 | Doc. 15915 | Written declaration Iran: people's rights against repression 24/04/2024 | Doc. 15920 | Written declaration Systemic arbitrary deprivation of liberty in Türkiye may constitute crimes against humanity
30/01/2025 | Doc. 16106, vote on the draft text for resolution European commitment to a just and lasting peace in Ukraine 28/01/2025 | Doc. 16093, vote on the draft text for resolution The absolute and urgent need to end the humanitarian crisis for women, children and the hostages in Gaza 02/10/2024 | Doc. 16040, vote on the draft text for resolution The detention and conviction of Julian Assange and their chilling effects on human rights 02/10/2024 | Doc. 16053, vote on the draft text for resolution Request for waiver of the immunity of Mr Marcin Romanowski 02/10/2024 | Doc. 16050, vote on the draft text for recommendation Missing persons, prisoners of war and civilians in captivity as a result of the war of aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine