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Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK Relations and the Windsor Framework: Engagement with European Commission Vice President (25 Apr 2023)

Colm Brophy: On behalf of the committee, I welcome Mr. Maroš Šefovi. Mr. Šefovi is vice president at the European Commission with responsibility for inter-institutional relations and foresight. He is the co-chair of the EU-UK Partnership Council, established under the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, as well as the co-chair of the EU-UK joint committee established under the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK Relations and the Windsor Framework: Engagement with European Commission Vice President (25 Apr 2023)

Colm Brophy: We lost contact with Mr. Šefovi for a few moments, but we can now see and hear him again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK Relations and the Windsor Framework: Engagement with European Commission Vice President (25 Apr 2023)

Colm Brophy: I thank Mr. Šefovi for his contribution. A number of members have questions for him. As this is a time-constrained meeting, I will ask members to limit their contributions to an initial five-minute question. People can come back in depending on how things flow after that. This is to make sure everybody gets a chance to ask a question and receive a detailed reply.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK Relations and the Windsor Framework: Engagement with European Commission Vice President (25 Apr 2023)

Colm Brophy: Deputy Harkin said she might have a follow-up question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK Relations and the Windsor Framework: Engagement with European Commission Vice President (25 Apr 2023)

Colm Brophy: We are coming into our last ten minutes and I appreciate that we gave a commitment on time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK Relations and the Windsor Framework: Engagement with European Commission Vice President (25 Apr 2023)

Colm Brophy: I thank Senator McDowell and I echo his words. I thank Commissioner Šefovi very much for his work. I had the opportunity to meet him over a year ago when things looked very different. I remember speaking to him at that time. The one thing that came through incredibly to me was that for someone who was not an Irishman his fundamental understanding of the need for patience when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-UK Relations and the Windsor Framework: Engagement with European Commission Vice President (25 Apr 2023)

Colm Brophy: I thank Vice-President Šefovi very much. With that, I conclude our meeting today. The committee will now stand adjourned until our next meeting which is at 11 a.m. tomorrow.

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Colm Brophy: Will Deputy McDonald be afforded some extra time?

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Colm Brophy: The Deputy went over herself. I posed direct questions to her in regarding party figures and involvement and her own knowledge, and maybe she could take the opportunity to answer them.

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Colm Brophy: Something Sinn Féin loves, as the Ceann Comhairle knows, is to have a question-and-answer session. Here is an opportunity for her to answer questions.

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Colm Brophy: The Deputy has walked out anyway. I thank the Ceann Comhairle.

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Colm Brophy: I will finish with these sentences. The public deserve to know about every aspect of this sorry affair. I ask Deputy McDonald to take the opportunity to reply. She needs to come clean about what happened.

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...