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Mr Paul GAVAN (Ireland, UEL)

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In the political groups

  • Bureau: Group of the Unified European Left since 09/10/2023
  • Auditor: Group of the Unified European Left since 25/04/2022
  • Member: Group of the Unified European Left from 16/03/2018 to 24/04/2022

In the Assembly

  • since 16/03/2018 Representative - Ireland

In the committee(s) and sub-committee(s)

  • First Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 24/01/2022 to 22/01/2024)
  • Member: Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (since 27/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (since 16/03/2018)
  • Member: Sub-Committee on Ethics (from 24/01/2022 to 22/01/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Refugee and Migrant Children and Young People (since 26/01/2021)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings (since 26/01/2021)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Diasporas and Integration (from 30/01/2020 to 24/01/2021)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Refugee and Migrant Children and Young People (from 26/03/2019 to 29/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Diasporas (from 23/01/2019 to 25/03/2019)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 21/01/2019 to 14/09/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Integration (from 26/04/2018 to 28/01/2020)
  • Alternate of Ms Marcella CORCORAN KENNEDY (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 24/06/2019 to 08/08/2020)
  • Alternate of Ms Frances FITZGERALD (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 21/01/2019 to 23/06/2019)
  • Alternate of Mr Seán CANNEY (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 16/03/2018 to 20/01/2019)
  • Alternate of Mr Barry COWEN (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Refugee and Migrant Children and Young People (from 26/04/2018 to 22/01/2019)

Interventions

Last speeches

28/06/2024 | 10:20:42 Thank you, Mister Chairperson. On behalf of the Group of the Unified European Left, I want to congratulate the rapporteur on an excellent report on a topic that deserves a much higher billing on this week's schedule. The key theme of safeguarding human rights for future generations has never been more important given the global threats of war, climate change and the political drift to tooth-and-claw capitalism and authoritarian right-wing governments across so much of Europe. There are two... 27/06/2024 | 20:02:03 Chair, I'm very grateful to you, thank you very much. This is an issue that's close to my heart as an Irish Republican. For decades, during the years of conflict in the north of my country, Sinn Féin representatives, including elected representatives, were banned from the airwaves of all broadcast media in the south of Ireland. From 1988 to 1994, they were banned from British media airwaves as well. Under section 31 of the Republic of Ireland's Broadcasting Act, it was forbidden to broadcast... 27/06/2024 | 18:23:32 Thank you, Mister President. On behalf of the Group of the Unified European Left I will begin with a quotation from a courageous Jewish academic, one of many. His name is Prof Amos Goldberg, a Holocaust and Genocide Researcher at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He said, “It is so difficult and painful to admit it, but Jewish history will henceforth be stained with the mark of Cain for the most horrible of crimes which cannot be erased. Yes, it is genocide.” Here we are, nine months into a... 27/06/2024 | 17:36:09 Thank you very much, Mister Chairperson. I want to begin by congratulating the rapporteur on an excellent piece of work and a very timely report. I want to give particular mention to mister Mr Domagoj HAJDUKOVIĆ, who was a fine member of this Assembly and a particularly active member of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons. He deserves great credit for the work on this report. It may be important to point out that the key themes of this report apply to a number of... 26/06/2024 | 10:54:42 Thank you, Mr President. I want to congratulate all three rapporteurs. As the last speaker said, it's very difficult to actually respond to all three reports in just three minutes. I'm probably going to focus on the the report on sanctions because I have a particular interest in that issue. Just to be clear, first and foremost, Russia's war on Ukraine is a blatant breach of international law and a full-scale aggression of the Russian military against the people of Ukraine and it has to be...

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