Representative
Senator
Seanad Éireann
IE - - Dublin 2
Ireland
Working language: English
28/01/2021 | 12:31:15 Good morning chairperson, good morning colleagues, I want to begin by warmly welcoming this resolution and commending the rapporteur. The creeping menace of racism and xenophobia is already stalking many parts of Europe. Tackling ethnic profiling is one concrete action that every country can and should make to combat prejudice and racial discrimination. Racial or ethnic profiling and policing has been defined as the use by the police with no objective and reasonable justification of grounds... 26/01/2021 | 11:34:24 Thank you chair. On behalf of the United European Left I want to welcome this report. Access to justice before independent and impartial courts is essential to the rule of law in any country and is one of the core values of the Council of Europe. I believe there is a fundamental difference between the two states named in this report: in Moldova there have been efforts to support moves towards a more independent judiciary; this is acknowledged in this report which nevertheless underlines the... 26/01/2021 | 10:01:30 Thank you, chair. I want to begin by commending the rapporteur and offering my full support for this very important report. I want too, like so many colleagues, to also highlight the case of Mr Selahattin Demirtaş and Mr Kavala in Turkey. And I echo the calls of my group leader that if Turkey does not act on these cases that we must take immediate further action. It's entirely unacceptable and an affront to the human rights principles of this organisation. Chair, I also want to speak about my... 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...
23/03/2021 | Doc. 15244 | Written declaration Critical state of health of prisoners in Turkey during the Covid-19 pandemic 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
28/01/2021 | Doc. 15216, vote on the draft text for resolution Challenge, on substantive grounds, of the still unratified credentials of the parliamentary delegation of the Russian Federation 28/01/2021 | Doc. 15199, vote on the draft text for resolution Ethnic profiling in Europe: a matter of great concern 27/01/2021 | Doc. 15212, vote on the draft text for resolution Covid-19 vaccines: ethical, legal and practical considerations 27/01/2021 | Doc. 15205, vote on the draft text for resolution Restrictions on NGO activities in Council of Europe member States 27/01/2021 | Doc. 15205, vote on the draft text for recommendation Restrictions on NGO activities in Council of Europe member States