Representative
Senator
Sinn Féin
Seanad Éireann
IE - - Dublin 2
Ireland
Working language: English
04/10/2019 | 12:05:18 Hi there. Thank you, Chairperson. Two years ago this week, on 1 October 2017, against massive provocation of the Spanish State, a referendum was held on Catalan independence. Millions of Catalans came out to vote and to democratically decide their future. It should have been a triumph for democracy, no matter what the result was. Sadly, the world witnessed shocking scenes of Spanish police brutality in various parts of Catalonia that day. Peaceful citizens who were protecting the integrity of... 03/10/2019 | 18:35:04 Thank you very much. I want to welcome this report and offer my support to the draft resolution. I'm very conscious of the fact that before I came into the Chamber I was watching reports of the extra-tropical storm lashing the west coast of my country, Ireland, the second one we've had in the last two years — something that would have been unheard of, frankly, and until this current decade. Climate change is the defining challenge of our generation. The next 11 years will be instrumental in... 01/10/2019 | 10:23:22 On behalf of the United European Left I want to warmly welcome this report and resolution and congratulate the rapporteur. Whistle-blowers play an essential role in any open and transparent democracy. They need to be given recognition and protection in law. This is a matter of fundamental rights. We need responsible citizens to disclose serious failings in the public interest if they come across them within government or the private sector. They need to do this without fear or repercussion... 27/06/2019 | 10:46:56 Thank you Chairperson. On behalf of the United European Left I want to commend the authors of these two excellent reports and fully endorse their recommendations. We are aware of the deep humanitarian crises that war, imperialism, poverty, inequality, persecutions and climate change are causing across the world. Many of the refugees and migrants that have come to Europe in recent times seeking sanctuary and a better life are children. Many of them are unaccompanied. They are at a severe risk... 26/06/2019 | 19:01:10 Thank you. God, I want to begin, first of all, by acknowledging the rapporteur, Mr OMTZIGT. We come from different political traditions. This is an excellent report, and I've been quite taken aback by the attempted defense, a few minutes ago, by my colleague from Malta. And, indeed, the comments from my colleague from Azerbaijan — I know what happens to journalists in Azerbaijan —. Daphne Galizia was Malta's leading investigative journalist. She was fearless in her work, and she uncovered...
07/10/2020 | Doc. 15162 | Motion for a resolution The impact of Brexit on human rights on the island of Ireland 15/10/2019 | Doc. 14926 | Written declaration The rights of the politically oppressed must be restored in the Republic of Moldova 04/10/2019 | Doc. 14983 | Written declaration The international community must respond to mass arrests and political prosecution in Kazakhstan 03/07/2019 | Doc. 14870 | Written declaration Concerns about reports of crackdown on members of the LGBTI community in Azerbaijan 03/07/2019 | Doc. 14876 | Written declaration “Magnitsky laws” sanctions must be imposed in response to political prosecution in Kazakhstan
04/10/2019 | Doc. 14956, vote on the draft text for resolution Labour migration from Eastern Europe and its impact on socio-demographic processes in these countries 03/10/2019 | Doc. 14971, vote on the draft text for resolution Saving lives in the Mediterranean Sea: the need for an urgent response 03/10/2019 | Doc. 14955, vote on the draft text for resolution A legal status for "climate refugees" 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 26/06/2019 | Doc. 14906, vote on the draft text for resolution Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination and the rule of law in Malta and beyond: ensuring that the whole truth emerges