Results 621-640 of 3,040 for speaker:Colm Brophy
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: Can I say to Senator Keogan directly as a member-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: You asked to go first.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: I facilitated that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: -----and it is very disappointing that you then would use up your time-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: You are using up your time by asking-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: Senator Chambers wants to make a point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: Correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: The role of the Chair is to protect the integrity of the committee. Specifically, when people are invited into the committee for the purpose of answering questions on a particular area, one concentrates and focuses on that area. Out of respect for other committees, we do not go into other areas that are outside our remit. That is why I would prefer if general questions in relation to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: -----rather than sneaking us into a political dimension.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: I thank Mr. O'Leary. Deputy Ó Murchú is next.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: Coffee is fairly bad as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: I am sorry, but I will not allow a back-and-forth conversation as there are many other Deputies and Senators waiting to come in. I ask Mr. O'Leary to complete his answer. If Ruairí - Deputy Ó Murchú, my apologies - wishes to come back in on a subsequent round, I will facilitate that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: The commission is certainly increasing participation in people who go to chip shops anyway. There is no question about that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: It is a good campaign.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: Any politician who has ever gone canvassing during or after “Liveline” can testify as to just how powerful the Joe Duffy mention is. If he brings up a topic, it certainly impacts. On the Unified Patent Court, I note people are not focused on it at this moment but it is an important referendum. There are quite a number of things at stake for Irish businesses, particularly in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: I thank Deputy Troy. Before the witnesses answer, I will add something to what he said. There are reputable broadcasters, to use the terminology, where there is a balanced and fair approach, which may involve an interview going backwards and forwards. However, at the very end of it, there is a process, sometimes after the person who has been subject to the interview has left, whereby a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: Exactly, the most famous incident being that one.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: It is a legal decision. If the vote is clear, it does not matter what number it starts at.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: I will take a quick timeout in order that we are absolutely clear. Can Mr. O'Leary just speak on the issue of sequential votes?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: The 1, 2, 3 should have been -----