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Mairead McGUINNESS

MEP · Ireland

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Speeches updated 8 days ago

All Speeches

111

Since July 1, 2024

Time at the Floor

7.0h

≈ 421 min

Average speech length

4:50 min

≈ 4.8 min · Rank 3/690

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14 Feb

2023

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Amendments to the European Long-Term Investment Funds (ELTIFs) Regulation (debate)

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– Mr President, indeed, can I just say – as you walk back towards your seat, Michiel – that you didn’t thank yourself, but you should, because you did an excellent job on behalf of this Parliament. And the results will speak for themselves. So I want to join in my appreciation for the work of both the rapporteur and all of the shadows, because this reform is very significant. I also want to acknow…

9 Nov

2022

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Digital finance: Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) - Digital Finance: Amending Directive regarding Digital Operational Resilience requirements (debate)

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– Mr President, I think I can be brief and just say a sincere thank you to all of the honourable Members for this evening’s debate. It is absolutely essential that we protect ourselves and our system against attack, and those financial entities in scope will be part of this process. There will be oversight also by EU supervisory authorities of big critical ICT providers to the sector. And I think …

9 Nov

2022

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Digital finance: Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) - Digital Finance: Amending Directive regarding Digital Operational Resilience requirements (debate)

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– Madam President, colleagues, it’s a pleasure to be here for the conclusion of the work on this Digital Operational Resilience Act, or DORA. My thanks to the honourable Members of the ECON Committee for their work. Of course, in particular, our thanks go to the two rapporteurs – Billy Kelleher, for the DORA Regulation, and you’ve just heard from the rapporteur on the DORA Directive, Mikuláš Peksa…

9 Nov

2022

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Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (debate)

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– Madam President, this has been a really interesting debate. And I have to say that, despite some criticism, I think there’s a shared view across all of the groups that what we’re doing is not only important, but hugely significant. And I want to thank you for the strength of the presentations this evening. Maybe a point on SMEs, because Ms Niebler always does speak for SMEs, and we share that co…

9 Nov

2022

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Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (debate)

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– Madam President, colleagues, honourable Members, I’m trying to catch the eye of our very committed rapporteur to say, at the very outset, thank you for your passion this evening and your commitment during the process. It is as a result of that and your collaboration with the shadow rapporteurs that we are able to have this debate and to sign off on this important piece of legislation. I think we…

5 Jul

2022

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Objection pursuant to Rule 111(3): Amending the Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act and the Taxonomy Disclosures Delegated Act (debate)

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– Mr President, thank you very much and thank you, colleagues. Thank you for this debate. It was long, it was well argued, and it was important that we had this conversation. I think the last speaker referred to a letter from the Ukrainian Minister of Energy, and I want to thank the Minister for the statement he made and I will quote the letter where he says, ‘I strongly believe that the inclusion…

5 Jul

2022

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Objection pursuant to Rule 111(3): Amending the Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act and the Taxonomy Disclosures Delegated Act (debate)

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– Mr President, to quote one of the many commentators on our debate today, ‘this is a moment of truth’. The first and most important truth that I want to convey to you, as former colleagues, is that the Climate Delegated Act, now in legislation since 1 January of this year, prioritises investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency. And, given the urgency of moving away from Russian fossil …

18 May

2022

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Minimum level of taxation for multinational groups (debate)

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– Madam President, honourable Members, thank you for a very strong debate. The rapporteur can be very pleased, Ms Lalucq, with the support you are getting for your work. I am very glad that the Commission and Parliament agree on the need to urgently adopt this file and there is a strong voice in support. So, our appreciation of that. So now it’s for the Council, and for the last opposing Member St…

18 May

2022

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Minimum level of taxation for multinational groups (debate)

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– Madam President. Good evening, colleagues. I want to reassure you, I was actually physically present and I hadn’t realised that you had started, Madam President, but I was glad when I entered the chamber to hear a speech with strong support for what we’re trying to do collectively here. So maybe I’ll start by highlighting, if that is necessary, that the Commission is fully committed to ensuring …

23 Mar

2022

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Suisse Secrets - How to implement anti-money laundering standards in third countries (debate)

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– Mr President, thank you to the colleagues for this debate. I think we should acknowledge that Suisse Secrets are no longer secrets because of the work of investigative journalists, and we should be grateful that there are investigative journalists and that we have press freedom. I mentioned in my opening remarks that we’re very committed to maintaining a tough approach in the fight against money…

23 Mar

2022

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Suisse Secrets - How to implement anti-money laundering standards in third countries (debate)

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– Mr President, thank you for the opportunity to speak on a really important topic. Before I really get into the depth of the debate, can I thank you, Minister, for your commitment, and that of the French Presidency, for our anti-money-laundering package. It’s really important and I do appreciate the support and the work. We’ve all followed successive revelations on money laundering with huge conc…

23 Mar

2022

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Roaming Regulation (recast) (debate)

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– Mr President, just to say this is a very pleasant debate because it’s good work and it’s progress, all building on what has already been the case. Ms Charanzová, I think you were right to remind us of how it used to be, because we tend to just take this for granted that we can ‘roam like at home’. So again, to thank the Parliament for this good cooperation and ensuring that the continued benefit…

23 Mar

2022

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Roaming Regulation (recast) (debate)

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– Madam President, really, I do want to say a big thank you to honourable Members and the rapporteurs because your work on the negotiations means that every European will continue to benefit for a further 10 years from the freedom to travel across the Union without having to pay additional roaming charges for calls, text messages and mobile data. And this is an excellent result. For many people it…

23 Mar

2022

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Pilot regime for market infrastructures based on distributed ledger technology (debate)

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– Madam President, can you hear me? I have to say, there’s something rather bizarre about a debate on technology when the technology fails. But what is wonderful is that we actually do have technology supplements, so well done, Madam President, and all the technical advisers. I think one of the earlier speakers mentioned that they would not sing – in fact a fellow Irish person, I believe. I’ve cer…

23 Mar

2022

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Pilot regime for market infrastructures based on distributed ledger technology (debate)

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– Madam President, I would just like to say how pleased I am, actually, to be here this evening for this discussion on what has been a very successful agreement on the distributed ledger technology (DLT) pilot project. And I want to begin by thanking, of course, the rapporteur from the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON), Mr Van Overtveldt, who has given an extremely good rundown of …

21 Oct

2021

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The proposal to build a ‘single market for philanthropy’ (debate)

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– Mr President, colleagues, for a Thursday afternoon, this has been a lively debate, and I welcome this, and many different views, but all strongly explored and developed. So I’m glad that I’m here to participate. I do want to take a slight issue with Mr Hoogeveen, who said that people in the Berlaymont are power-hungry. I’m not. I was of this House, so I understand people and I am still connected…

21 Oct

2021

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The proposal to build a ‘single market for philanthropy’ (debate)

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– Mr President, I’m here on behalf of Commissioner Gabriel. But of course, we all have an interest in this topic. And by way of background, in Europe, we have more than 147 000 philanthropic organisations with an accumulated annual expenditure of nearly EUR 60 billion. Just last year, global philanthropic giving, in all its forms, topped EUR 660 billion, the highest amount ever. The field of arts …

21 Oct

2021

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Insurance of motor vehicles (debate)

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– Mr President, I can be brief. I think to the rapporteur, Vice-President Charanzová, and your team of shadow rapporteurs, you have got praise from all sides of this house for your work, and I think that is a good compliment to your success this morning. It’s been a long process, because this dates back to the previous parliamentary mandate. So for your commitment to this file, certainly from our …

21 Oct

2021

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Insurance of motor vehicles (debate)

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– Mr President, honourable members, firstly, my deep appreciation for the work of Vice-President Charanzová and all of her shadows. And can I say I really appreciate your common sense approach. And indeed, if you look back on the history of the Motor Insurance Directive, the first one was adopted in 1972, and for nearly 50 years it has enabled vehicles and motorists to travel freely across the Eur…

21 Oct

2021

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The outcome of the Western Balkans summit (continuation of debate)

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– Mr President, honourable members, this morning’s debate really confirms the European Parliament’s continued interest, commitment, concern for and engagement in the Western Balkans, and I want to thank you for that. Here the European Union is rapidly transforming to address global challenges, including climate change, digitalisation and security. As potential future EU Member States already close…

21 Oct

2021

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The outcome of the Western Balkans summit (debate)

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– Mr President, thank you very much for holding this debate to discuss the outcome of the EU Western Balkans summit on 6 October. Our thanks too to the Slovenian Presidency for hosting the event. The summit was an important opportunity to reconfirm the European perspective of the Western Balkans and the deep links between the European Union and our Western Balkan partners. We are all Europe. We sh…

20 Oct

2021

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Global Tax Agreements to be endorsed at the G20 Summit in Rome, 30th/31st of October (continuation of debate)

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– Mr President, I would like to thank the honourable Members for what has been a very lively debate. As many of you have said, this political agreement which we have reached is truly historic, and the Commission will work at full speed to implement it. In parallel, the Commission will continue working on its business tax agenda. Firstly, by cracking down on tax avoidance and evasion. Here, the Com…

20 Oct

2021

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Global Tax Agreements to be endorsed at the G20 Summit in Rome, 30th/31st of October (debate)

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– Mr President, last week’s endorsement by G20 finance ministers and the forthcoming endorsement by G20 leaders marks a key step towards the implementation of the historic global tax reform agreed in early October. With 136 jurisdictions on board, including developing countries, all G20 members, all OECD members, and all EU Member States that are part of the inclusive framework, this is nothing le…

20 Oct

2021

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Increased efforts to fight money laundering (debate)

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– Mr President, I have really welcomed this debate, and I think we all agree that, if the current system worked, we wouldn’t be reviewing it. So I welcome your support for our July package. It’s really important that you work hard and fast on this proposal. I want to speak to some of the points that were raised. To Mr Beck, who I think is not in the Chamber, we are not abolishing, and have no inte…

20 Oct

2021

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Increased efforts to fight money laundering (debate)

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– Madam President, thank you for the opportunity to outline our very determined efforts to fight money laundering and how the Commission is working to ensure the effective application of existing anti-money laundering rules. We adopted a very ambitious anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) package on 20 July and I look forward to working with Parliament to reach…