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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Parliamentary Delegation from the Republic of Georgia (29 Mar 2023)
Colm Brophy: I will take the opportunity to make some remarks myself. It is a pleasure to meet everyone. As I am new to the Chair of this committee, I did not have the opportunity to travel with the committee, but I gather from talking to members that it was an excellent visit. I put on record my absolute support for enlargement and membership for Georgia of the European Union. I will follow up on one...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Parliamentary Delegation from the Republic of Georgia (29 Mar 2023)
Colm Brophy: I think we will leave this. There are guidelines on how we work and if Mr. Samkharadze is going into doctors and everything else like that, we might leave it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Parliamentary Delegation from the Republic of Georgia (29 Mar 2023)
Colm Brophy: I appreciate that but as I said at the start, in terms of the declaration I made, we have rules and regulations around people and their reputations and what can be said about them within the confines of the Irish Parliament.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Parliamentary Delegation from the Republic of Georgia (29 Mar 2023)
Colm Brophy: We do not want to cross into that area.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Parliamentary Delegation from the Republic of Georgia (29 Mar 2023)
Colm Brophy: I thank Mr. Samkharadze for an incredibly comprehensive performance. Mr. Samkharadze's colleagues were there with him but he did it on his own. There was a lot of questioning and answering and we really do appreciate Mr. Samkharadze's engagement. To confirm that view from the committee and from the members here, we are for total engagement on, and support for, enlargement and Georgia's...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Parliamentary Delegation from the Republic of Georgia (29 Mar 2023)
Colm Brophy: The wonderful Georgian ambassador, who has already been complimented, wishes to say a few words.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Parliamentary Delegation from the Republic of Georgia (29 Mar 2023)
Colm Brophy: I thank Ms Bitadze for the extra contribution.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Parliamentary Delegation from the Republic of Georgia (29 Mar 2023)
Colm Brophy: I thank Mr. Songulashvili. It is something we are always conscious of, certainly for people like me who were born in the 1960s. The journey this country took both economically and in reform made it the country it is today and has changed it beyond recognition. Much of that is down to our membership of the European Union and the benefits we attained from that. I thank all of the witnesses...
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: Organised crime has to be tackled head-on at every single opportunity. There can be no let-up. Over the last few days, I have been contacted by so many people to outline the feeling of betrayal and anger they feel about Sinn Féin's-----
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: -----position in relation to Jonathan Dowdall. One man, John, who is an anti-drugs activist, now said he feels personally betrayed when he hears Sinn Féin's public representatives speaking about crime, drugs and how to tackle them. It is a party, as he said himself, that was willing to allow a violent criminal to be a public representative for its party. He went on to ask me, "Do they...
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: Yes, it is indeed.
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: I will come back to that. Thank you. I appreciate the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, but I will continue. Did his constituency mentor and now party leader, Deputy Mary Lou McDonald, call to his home, on the Navan Road by the way, and persuade him to stay? Did Deputy McDonald pressurise Jonathan Dowdall to stay in her local organisation?
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: What actions did Mary Lou McDonald take-----
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: -----to ensure Dowdall remained on as a councillor?
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: I am. Deputy McDonald will be here in the House later. I am sure she will take the opportunity to answer questions-----
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: -----on what "total support", as reported by TheJournal.ie, did she provide to Dowdall to ensure he stayed in the party? Who are the party figures - this is particularly important - Dowdall had talks with to reach his decision to stay in Sinn Féin? Remember, all of this took when Sinn Féin's director of elections discussed the 2011 gun attack with Dowdall before he was elected to...
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: -----with Mary Lou McDonald's local organisation.
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: It stretches credibility to the limit to say he had no idea about-----
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: I am sorry, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, but I beg to differ with you with the greatest of respect.
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: The most organised crime story we have had in recent days and weeks in our country is the crime story I am referring to. It is deeply regrettable that you would try to stop me raising these questions, because these questions are at the heart of where-----