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Jan

2026

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Situation in Venezuela following the extraction of Maduro and the need to ensure a peaceful democratic transition (debate)

Madam President, the actions of the United States and Venezuela just illustrate the broader imperialistic stance of Donald Trump and his cronies towards Latin America. The reality is that they have kidnapped the Venezuelan Head of State and his wife, and have killed 83 civilians in the process. The actions of the United States are illegal under international law, and they are a thinly veiled attem…

18

Dec

2025

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Dramatic global rise in violent attacks against humanitarian workers and journalists (debate)

A Uachtaráin, attacks on humanitarian workers are escalating across the globe. 2024 was the deadliest year for humanitarian workers on record, specifically, in the case of Palestine, where at least 531 humanitarian workers, including 366 United Nations personnel, were killed in the Gaza Strip between October 2023 and August 2025. We have an October 2025 ICJ advisory opinion, which clarifies quite …

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Dec

2025

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Recent developments in Palestine and Lebanon (debate)

Mr President, as we approach Christmas, many in this Chamber will look forward to spending time with their children to holding them tight. For Palestinian children, however, there is no safe place: 2025 has seen Palestinian children endure genocide, starvation, torture, mass displacement, enforced disappearance and relentless violence from settlers and the IDF. In the West Bank, the IDF has killed…

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Dec

2025

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A Uachtaráin, in Ireland, thousands of much-needed new homes have been blocked from connecting to the electricity grid by data centres. Earlier this year, because of information requests that I made, I was able to reveal that the Minister for Energy had been warned that data centres would jeopardise the housing targets by taking up all the remaining spare capacity on the electricity grid. This was…

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Nov

2025

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European Defence Industry Programme and a framework of measures to ensure the timely availability and supply of defence products (‘EDIP’) (debate)

Madam President, the EDIP regulation is another giveaway to the arms industry, but this time we're not only giving them taxpayers' money, but we're also sacrificing our environmental and workers' rights protections, in order that weapons companies can make even more money. This regulation, as others have said, steamrolls over the Habitats Directive, water quality legislation and the Working Time D…

24

Nov

2025

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Madam President, today, ten countries have not ratified the CETA trade agreement. Yet the Irish Government is getting ready to bring forward amendments to its Arbitration Act to ratify CETA and effectively bring investor courts to Ireland. Ratifying CETA and introducing investor courts so that large multinationals can sue our countries would be a disaster for housing, for climate, for workers' rig…

24

Nov

2025

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30th anniversary of the Barcelona Process and the new pact for the Mediterranean (debate)

A Uachtaráin, as we debate the Barcelona Process and the pact for the Mediterranean, Israel is still murdering Palestinians in Gaza and dropping bombs on a civilian population. The Israeli government is escalating the de facto annexation of the West Bank, and the illegal Israeli settlers are still inflicting extreme violence on Palestinian communities in order to steal their land. In the communica…

12

Nov

2025

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Commemorating the 10th anniversary of the islamist attacks of 13 November 2015 in Paris (debate)

A Uachtaráin, I rise to make a point of order under Rules 2 and 229 of our Rules of Procedure. As Chair of the Delegation for Relations with Palestine, I have been banned by the Israeli authorities for five years. Three members of the delegation are now blocked from participating in their mandate and from going on missions to Palestine. There have also been defamatory comments made about myself by…

22

Oct

2025

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UN Climate Change Conference 2025 in Belém, Brazil (COP30) (debate)

President, COP30 is at a critical juncture for our people and planet with rising global temperatures and rising climate disasters. The profit forces are trying to get real climate action on their way. We need to talk about this issue - the military industry. With the power of the military industry in Europe growing, let us not forget that they profit from death and are responsible for the climate …

21

Oct

2025

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Recent peace agreement in the Middle East and the role of the EU (debate)

A Uachtaráin, 11 days ago, we welcomed the ceasefire, but since then, 153 tons of bombs have dropped on Gaza. 62 is the number of Israeli occupation forces shooting incidents in the West Bank. 67 000 is the very conservative estimate for Palestinians killed, unknown is the number under the rubble. 169 000 is the number of Palestinians injured, 4 000 is the number of children who have lost limbs. 1…

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Oct

2025

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The EU’s role in supporting the recent peace efforts for Gaza and a two-state solution (debate)

A Uachtaráin, the legacy of the Palestinian genocide, the systematic failure of political leadership and, in some cases, the EU's act of complicity will have ramifications for decades. First and foremost, the profound trauma of mass displacement, of the loss of multiple generations of families, of tens of thousands of orphans, of forced starvation will be catastrophic. Palestinians may never be ab…

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Oct

2025

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A Uachtaráin, Ireland's energy system should serve as a cautionary tale to others in the EU, because 20 years ago, Ireland had one of the lowest energy costs in the EU, and today we have some of the highest. And why is that? It is because government after government has chased the big tech and data centres to establish themselves in Ireland. Not just have they led to increasing energy costs, there…

9

Jul

2025

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EU-US trade negotiations (debate)

A Uachtaráin, the EU must not take reactionary measures to what is an extremely volatile presidency that's hell-bent on enriching the billionaires around him. So standing firm is just as important as any countermeasures. The EU needs to hold its nerve. Trump and the US cannot be allowed to dictate laws to the rest of the world. His latest announcements on pharmaceuticals are deeply concerning for …

8

Jul

2025

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Situation in the Middle East (debate)

A Uachtaráin, we're now at a point where gunning down hungry people as they desperately try to get aid is a daily occurrence. There was international shock the first time, but just like with the bombing of the first hospital, when there are no consequences for Israel, they are emboldened and they carry on. 700 Palestinians have now been slaughtered at aid sites; baby formula is blocked. They are l…

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Jul

2025

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A Uachtaráin, I welcome that the Parliament is challenging the Commission's use of Article 122 of the TFEU to adopt the SAFE Regulation. The Commission chose this mechanism for the very purpose of bypassing parliamentary scrutiny, and it is a wholly inappropriate mechanism for defence spending. Article 122 is supposed to help Member States in the event of difficulties in the supply of certain prod…

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Jun

2025

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Institutional and political implications of the EU enlargement process and global challenges (debate)

A Uachtaráin, I welcome this debate on enlargement, as EU membership is a discussion that's happening in many regions across the continent – regions like the north of Ireland. Here the debate is coupled with the conversation around Irish reunification. This is an oven-ready, straightforward enlargement. The EU Council has already agreed – in the event of Irish reunification – the readmission of th…

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May

2025

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The EU's response to the Israeli government's plan to seize the Gaza Strip, ensuring effective humanitarian support and the liberation of hostages (debate)

Madam President, on a point of order, the keffiyeh is not a political statement. Is it against the rules of this House to have a Ukrainian flag or a pin on our lapels? Would somebody call on us to remove that? People are more annoyed about symbols than they are about starving babies!…

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May

2025

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The EU's response to the Israeli government's plan to seize the Gaza Strip, ensuring effective humanitarian support and the liberation of hostages (debate)

Madam President, I stand here today to do what EU leaders won't do, and that is to apologise to the people of Gaza and Palestine. I'm sorry that it has taken tens of thousands of deaths and the imminent death of 14 000 starving babies just so that the European Commission can agree to review an association agreement that should have been suspended years ago. I'm sorry that the EU countries continue…

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May

2025

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Discharge 2023: EU general budget - European External Action Service (A10-0069/2025 - Joachim Stanisław Brudziński)

A Uachtaráin, I abstained on the discharge because the attached resolution is totally out of touch with reality. In the last number of days, the Israeli Government has agreed plans to permanently occupy Gaza, the Freedom Flotilla ship, the Conscience, was attacked and the Israeli authorities are carrying out a mass starvation program in Gaza. Food is rotting at the border, while only a number of m…

6

May

2025

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A unified EU response to unjustified US trade measures and global trade opportunities for the EU (debate)

A Uachtaráin, Commissioner, when it comes to the EU's response to Trump's tariffs, it's essential that all Member States, including smaller ones like Ireland, are taken into consideration. The collective response must be one that protects workers, that funds and encourages upskilling and that does not pursue the same anti-worker, anti-environment, Trump-lite deregulation agenda. We also cannot exp…

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Apr

2025

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Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2024 (A10-0011/2025 - Nicolás Pascual de la Parte)

A Uachtaráin, I voted against this report because it shows just how committed European leaders are to militarisation and the arms race. The EU is founded as a peace project. Indeed, in the Schuman Declaration, it was said that the pooling of coal and steel production will change the destinies of those regions which have long been devoted to the manufacture of munitions of war, of which they have b…

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Apr

2025

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CFSP and CSDP (Article 36 TUE) (joint debate)

A Uachtaráin, I'd like to welcome VP Kallas here today, given her notable absence at recent debates. And today I want to compare what Israel says with what Israel does, seeing as the Commission is unable to make that distinction. Israel claims it facilitates humanitarian aid entering Gaza. Yet all entry points into Gaza are closed for cargo since early March. At the border, food is rotting, medici…

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Mar

2025

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Deteriorating situation in Gaza following the non-extension of the ceasefire (debate)

A Uachtaráin, the decision by the Israeli Government to cut off electricity to Gaza is just the latest in a series of actions designed to make life for Palestinians unliveable. The decades-long illegal occupation and the 18-year blockade and siege of Gaza have all been allowed to continue because of the inaction of the international community, and that includes the EU. 'Attacks against civilian in…

11

Mar

2025

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White paper on the future of European defence (debate)

Madam President, I've been listening to the whole debate, and I've heard a lot of colleagues talk about defending democracy and about the need to join an EU army, but I would like to ask them, what about Ireland's democracy? What about our right to be a neutral country? Because repeatedly, Irish citizens have rejected any form of EU common security and defence or EU army, both at Nice and at Lisbo…

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Mar

2025

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Madam President, as the EU commits itself to a dangerous policy of rearmament, which is only going to make the world more dangerous, the Irish Government is also getting ready to jettison our triple lock on the deployment of Irish troops. Let us be very clear: Ireland's neutrality and our long-standing commitment to UN peacekeeping missions has made the world safer. It is attacks on the UN and on …