04/10/2024 | 10:27:04 Is it working? Yes. Good. Thank you, President and colleagues, I would like to thank the rapporteur and his Committee for a splendid piece of work. And perhaps add to that for his introduction to the debate today, which has laid the issues before us in a very clear way. Members may wonder what an old man like me can contribute to a subject where emerging technology is very much in our focus. And it's a fair question since I started my intellectual life before the internet was invented. It... 01/10/2024 | 10:30:34 Mister President and colleagues, I'm delighted to have read this report and to see the challenge that it poses for all of us, even those who have developed legislation in their own constituencies, to deal with these very questions. I had a humble role in our own parliament in shaping a Data Processing Act where the question of the freedom of information was key and also about to come into practice and already passed is an Online Safety Act that will have picked up some of the questions that... 28/06/2024 | 10:59:04 I'm most grateful for the report, most grateful for tracing initiatives that seem to have the objectives set in mind. Earlier in our debates, from Spain, we heard about a law on memory. We must learn from the past. I want to speak about a law that already exists, and it comes from my own little country, that very rarely gets mentioned in this august Assembly, namely Wales. It passed an act of parliament in 2015 entitled the "Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act" and is already doing... 27/06/2024 | 17:42:22 Thank you, President and members. I, like others, want to pay my proper tribute to the compiler of this report, who has served the Assembly in general so well over such a long time. Mr Domagoj HAJDUKOVIĆ is going to be greatly missed, but his legacy is with us, and we are grateful. I want to start also by saying that so many of the little points I wanted to make have been picked up adequately by others before me. But I do want to associate myself with Mr Paul GAVAN and his speech just a... 15/04/2024 | 15:58:34 President and fellow members of this Assembly, a joy to be speaking on this debate as an expert in playing the role of an opposition since for 14 years as a member of the Labour Party in the British Parliament, we have been in opposition. I claimed, therefore, my own expertise in the matter, and I can show you the wounds and the scars, if necessary. I want to thank those who have compiled the two reports, and particularly alongside the firm principles enunciated in them allowing for the... 26/01/2024 | 11:33:55 President and colleagues, The sad story of the abuse of children in contexts where they should have felt safe has been well chronicled by our friend Mr Pierre-Alain FRIDEZ. This report makes sad reading. It's been well addressed by previous speakers, especially Ms Larysa BILOZIR who preceded me, and others from Ukraine. Sad reading indeed. It urges us to deal with issues he raises in a constructive and compassionate way. We're in his debt. And yet for all the urgency which he points to, I... 24/01/2024 | 19:12:29 Thank you, Madam President. And I want to thank those who put this report together. It is a prodigious piece of work, horrifying as it is. And once it concentrates on Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation and Türkiye it takes us on a whistle stop tour around many of the countries represented in this Assembly and shows just how much work there is still to do. The bestiality of some of the punishments is almost beyond description, and we can only just regret that, and with hand on heart promise... 23/06/2023 | 12:23:40 Thank you very much indeed Madam Chair and colleagues who have had the courage and stamina to remain this long in the House. I sit on a committee in the House of Lords, a select committee. The genius is it's bipartisan and it consists of experts in their field. The committee I sit on is for communications and digital. Our last report was called "Regulating the Regulators". The current one, nearly complete, is on digital exclusion. The one we're about to begin will be on artificial... 23/06/2023 | 10:22:08 Thank you, Chair and members. Just a word to add support from our group to what has just been said about the case of Mr Julian Assange and also to do it from the point of view of a speaker, not only for my group but for my country. It is scandalous. It needs to be dealt with in a humane and humanitarian way. I am very grateful to Sir Christopher CHOPE for bringing together this report and so many instances and categories, many of which one knew about in bits and pieces through the news that... 21/06/2023 | 19:39:45 Madam Chair and friends and colleagues, This is such an important matter that we are looking at. I really want to thank the person who has put this together. It is a lot of really hard work. I am so glad that it is a voice outside the United Kingdom that has brought these matters in such a focused way to our attention. And I want to compliment you, as indeed did Ms Ruth JONES earlier, on the hard work that you have done. Of course, it is a difficult subject. I, like Lord Richard KEEN, am a...