Posts Tagged ‘ Pat ‘The Cope’ Gallagher ’

List: Irish MEPs and their Committees

July 17, 2009
By Stephen
List: Irish MEPs and their Committees

If your like me, you will want to know what committees in the European Parliament the Irish MEPs have been assigned to. I have gleaned this information off the europarl website and some of ye might find it interesting. Committee on Development Gay Mitchell (FG/EPP – Dublin) Committee on International Trade Joe Higgins (SOC/GUE-NGL – Dublin) Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Proinsias De Rossa (Lab/S&D – Dublin) Marian Harkin (Ind/ALDE – North West) Committee on the Environment, Public...

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Donegal South West – Bye-Election

June 8, 2009
By Stephen
Donegal South West – Bye-Election

So its looking like Pat “The Cope” Gallagher will be elected to the European Parliament at some point tonight or tomorrow morning which means he will not be voting on the motion of no confidence in the Dáil. It also means that there will be another bye-election this year. This time it takes place in Donegal South West. Donegal South West is a 3 seat constituency. In the General Election in 2004 the results were like this (from Electionsireland.org)...

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Some Contributions from the Second Day of Debate on the Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill

April 4, 2008
By Stephen
Some Contributions from the Second Day of Debate on the Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill

The debate resumed today at 1 o’clock Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach, Deputy Dick Roche (Fianna Fáil): The main aims of the Lisbon reform treaty, as spelled out in its preamble, are to enhance the efficiency and the democratic legitimacy of the Union. This treaty is different from those that went before it. It was not produced behind closed doors, rather it was crafted in public. The reform treaty is not, as some would have...

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