Representative
Senator
Fine Gael
Seanad Éireann
IE - - Dublin 2
Ireland
Working language: English
20/09/2021 - Bureau Parliamentary elections in the Russian Federation: statement by PACE Election Assessment Mission 06/09/2021 - Bureau Parliamentary elections in the Russian Federation: PACE Election Assessment Mission 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
28/09/2021 | 17:34:56 Thank you, President, At the outset, on behalf of the EPP, I want to congratulate Ms Nicole TRISSE from France on the original report and Ms Petra BAYR, my good friend, for the Committee's opinion. The EPP supports both the underlying principles here and the balanced nature of the report and we understand, in the EPP, that this cannot be achieved by aspiration alone and that there must be targets and quotas and clear delineation of what has to be done. Gender inequality demeans both men and... 27/09/2021 | 17:13:04 Thank you. Thank you, Madam President, and I am delighted to see that you are in the Chair for this debate. I wanted on the outset to welcome the report. I want to warmly congratulate my colleague, my Irish colleague, on its balance, its objectivity, its depth, and his very hard work in producing it. What I like about the report is that it has within it recommendations or suggestions or a pathway to the future. To that extent, I applaud him for that; there is a basis to build peace there. I... 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...
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
28/09/2021 | Doc. 15365, vote on the draft text for resolution Socio-economic inequalities in Europe: time to restore social trust by strengthening social rights 28/09/2021 | Doc. 15365, vote on the draft text for recommendation Socio-economic inequalities in Europe: time to restore social trust by strengthening social rights 28/09/2021 | Doc. 15366, vote on the draft text for resolution Gender representation in the Parliamentary Assembly 27/09/2021 | Doc. 15363, vote on the draft text for resolution Humanitarian consequences of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan 27/09/2021 | Doc. 15363, vote on the draft text for recommendation Humanitarian consequences of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan