Deputy
Fianna Fáil
Dáil Éireann
IE - - Dublin 2
Ireland
Working language: English
22/06/2022 | 17:43:31 Thank you, Chairman. I want to commend the rapporteurs, the Secretariat, and everybody involved in these reports, and particularly to commend our Ukrainian colleagues. To be a rapporteur at any stage for a PACE report is quite a task. To take it on in such a time of national and personal challenge, we are particularly grateful to you. Mister Chairman, as this debate proceeded, the Irish Times published a story online about a 12-year-old Ukrainian girl who came from Kharkiv with her... 27/04/2022 | 18:26:48 Thank you, Madam President. Madam President, in 1996 the Irish journalist Veronica Guerin was murdered by representatives of drug organisations whose work she was highlighting. This was a major shock to our republic and it is in her wake and as a major tribute to her that the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) was established. The mission of CAB is to deny and deprive people of the proceeds of criminal conduct. It is a multi-agency body made up of police, of civil servants, THE department of social... 27/04/2022 | 16:59:38 Thank you, Mr President. As an Irish person, it is in our DNA to understand what it's like to be threatened by a larger, more militarily powerful neighbour, and to stand up to that threat. And that is why we stand as a people in more ways than one, with the people of Ukraine in their current situation. I want to commend Mr Frank SCHWABE and the Secretariat – because behind every good rapporteur is an excellent secretariat – from the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy on his report... 26/04/2022 | 10:20:53 Mister President, I too want to commend the rapporteur on his work and his Committee. It is interesting, Mister President, to notice that this report was commissioned on 12 April 2019. In the words of W. B. Yeats, "all has changed, and changed utterly". A worldwide pandemic, that we've not had the opportunity to reflect how that impacted on our people's lived experiences, and that has impacted on our democracy, and now we have the war on Ukraine and the invasion of Ukraine. I think the change... 15/03/2022 | 19:20:04 Madam Rapporteur, thank you for your report, for the extraordinary work you've put into that report. Madam Chair, I welcome the president's clarification that we are proceeding this evening in spite of the Russian announcement that they intend to withdraw from the Council of Europe. They intend to withdraw by using Article 7. They intend to do that to try and stop, to withdraw before we push them, and we must proceed to push them, to expel them. The Council of Ministers must expel them too...
27/06/2022 | Doc. 15578 | Motion for a resolution Systematic large-scale persecution against anti-war protesters in the Russian Federation 23/06/2022 | Doc. 15564 | Motion for a resolution Countering the erasure of cultural identity in war and peace 28/04/2022 | Doc. 15514 | Motion for a resolution Arbitrary arrest of Russian human rights defender and freedom fighter Vladimir Kara-Murza
22/06/2022 | Doc. 15539, vote on the draft text for resolution Preventing and combating antisemitism in Europe 22/06/2022 | Doc. 15547, vote on the draft text for resolution Humanitarian consequences and internal and external migration in connection with the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine 22/06/2022 | Doc. 15548, vote on the draft text for resolution Protection and alternative care for unaccompanied and separated migrant and refugee children 22/06/2022 | Doc. 15525, vote on the draft text for resolution Justice and security for women in peace reconciliation 21/06/2022 | Doc. 15541, vote on the draft text for resolution Recent challenges to security in Europe: what role for the Council of Europe?