Representative
Senator
Fine Gael
Seanad Éireann
IE - - Dublin 2
Ireland
Working language: English
25/06/2020 - Legal Affairs and Human Rights Drug policy: better knowledge for greater protection 09/06/2020 - Monitoring PACE Albania monitors welcome agreement on electoral reform 26/03/2020 - Monitoring COVID-19: monitors welcome EU Council decision to open membership talks with Albania and North Macedonia 15/01/2020 - Monitoring Albania: rapporteurs welcome agreement between opposition and ruling majority on electoral reform 26/02/2019 - Monitoring PACE monitors express concern at resignations of Albanian MPs
22/06/2021 | 09:38:23 At the beginning, it's so timely given the situation with the pandemic at the moment. We have what the World Health Organisation has called an infodemic to the extent that certain countries have used the pandemic as a pretext to distort the provision of proper information and the dissemination of information. Complicit in this is media. Everybody has a right to know, a right to freedom of expression, a right to be part of public decision making. There is often a lack of transparency in media... 02/10/2019 | 16:40:43 Thank you, President. Can I begin by congratulating my friend and colleague Ms TRISSE from the Social Affairs Committee on this excellent report? The report focuses on the need to keep the bank focused on the vulnerable, social needs and new contemporary challenges, and focuses on the simplification of governance, all worthy objectives. In my own country, we have a big challenge in the area of housing, and we plan to build 30 000 new social houses between now and 2021. It is for this reason... 26/06/2019 | 11:03:31 About three weeks ago I visited one of the infamous former, "lunatic asylum" was the gruesome title, psychiatric hospital, Grangegorman, in Dublin, and I saw that it was transformed into a very vibrant, beautiful, third level college, and that the horrible institution that existed was gone. I use that as a symbol or a metaphor for what should be the case everywhere, onand what should be done. Mental health is a human rights issue. Any involuntary treatment, coercion, of course, all of that... 25/06/2019 | 11:31:51 Thank you very much to Ms Petra De SUTTER, and again our very best wishes to you personally. Now that closes the debate as such. Now we have some references to Committees. The Bureau has proposed a number of references to Committees for ratification by the Assembly set out in documents 14911, document 14911 Add. 1 and 2, and document 14912. Is there any objection to the proposed references to Committee? There is no objection so the references are approved. Now we move to the approval of the... 23/01/2019 | 16:55:45 Does anyone object? That is not the case. Amendments 15, 1, 10, 11, 2, 12, 3, 13, 4, 5, 6, 7, 17, 8, 9 and 14 are adopted. We will therefore now consider Amendment 16. I remind you that speeches on amendments are limited to 30 seconds. I call Mr Jaak MADISON to support the amendment. As Mr Jaak MADISON is not present, the amendment is not moved. We will now proceed to vote on the draft resolution contained in Document 14669, as amended. A simple majority is required. The vote is open. The...
10/06/2020 | Doc. 15114 | Committee Opinion Drug policy and human rights in Europe: a baseline study
01/07/2021 | Doc. 15275 | Written declaration Permanent provocations and recent military escalation by the Russian Federation 22/04/2021 | Doc. 15275 | Written declaration Permanent provocations and recent military escalation by the Russian Federation 07/04/2021 | Doc. 15257 | Motion for a resolution Covid passports or certificates: protection of fundamental rights and legal implications 06/01/2021 | Doc. 15206 | Motion for a resolution Polarisation of the political environment as a hidden danger of the displacement of the population 06/01/2021 | Doc. 15207 | Motion for a resolution Gradual cultural erasure and other threats to culture
22/06/2021 | Doc. 15310, vote on the draft text for resolution Overcoming the socio-economic crisis sparked by the Covid-19 pandemic 22/06/2021 | Doc. 15310, vote on the draft text for recommendation Overcoming the socio-economic crisis sparked by the Covid-19 pandemic 26/06/2019 | Doc. 14922, vote on the draft text for resolution Challenge, on substantive grounds, of the still unratified credentials of the parliamentary delegation of the Russian Federation 10/04/2019 | Doc. 14863, vote on the draft text for resolution Role and mission of the Parliamentary Assembly: main challenges for the future 10/04/2019 | Doc. 14863, vote on the draft text for recommendation Role and mission of the Parliamentary Assembly: main challenges for the future