Substitute
Senator
Social Democrats
Seanad Éireann
IE - - Dublin 2
Ireland
Working language: English
Declarations of interests:
2025
08/04/2025 | 18:02:01 Thank you, Chair. As we've already heard today, we've seen deeply worrying trends regarding the use of excessive force and police violence, including the use of tear gas, water cannons, rubber bullets, and, as we've heard from Amnesty International reports in Serbia, the unlawful use of sonic weapons against peaceful protesters. We need to be unequivocal in our opposition to the forceful dispersing of peaceful protesters, whether that be in the Western Balkan, Central Europe, or indeed... 08/04/2025 | 12:02:20 We have seen a plethora of examples of interference on social media platforms from a range of different actors, both from states, as we've heard already this morning, from states like Russia, but we've also seen it from social media companies who are farming our data and feeding off online outrage for clicks and ad revenue, and this has served to influence public debate and create distrust so that the truth is impossible to understand. This isn't new. We have known about this issue since the...
23/04/2025 | Doc. 16113 | Written declaration Kazakhstan: systematic violations of human rights and political freedoms through judicial, financial and transnational repression must end 08/04/2025 | Doc. 16155 | Written declaration Upholding the rights to protest: defending the Budapest Pride march