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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Case of Mr. Sergei Magnitsky: Motion (6 Mar 2013)

Jim Walsh: I move: That the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade –- noting that the Russian lawyer, Mr. Sergei Magnitsky, died on 16 November 2009 at the age of 37, after being systematically denied medical care and beaten by riot guards with rubber batons in a Russian pre-trial detention centre, after he uncovered and exposed a major corruption scandal in Russia; and - noting the passage...

Seanad: Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (27 Feb 2013)

Jim Walsh: I presume the discussion will resume next week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Case of Mr. Sergei Magnitsky: Discussion (27 Feb 2013)

Jim Walsh: We have had a valuable engagement on a fundamental topic under our remit. I am of a mind based on what I have heard today and previously during our hearings that it would be prudent to follow the template elsewhere. I am inclined to go with the suggestion that we seek to have the Government implement the Magnitsky sanctions in Ireland and utilise the opportunity of the EU Presidency to seek...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Case of Mr. Sergei Magnitsky: Discussion (27 Feb 2013)

Jim Walsh: I welcome Mr. Browder. Deputy John Paul Phelan and I, as well as others, have heard this presentation previously at the OSCE and it had a powerful influence on us, as I believe it has had on the joint committee here. As for the parallel with the case of Veronica Guerin, who had the courage to tackle organised crime, lawyers often are front-line defenders for human rights and, therefore,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Discussion with Amnesty International Ireland (27 Feb 2013)

Jim Walsh: I asked a specific question on the breach of that woman's child's right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Discussion with Amnesty International Ireland (27 Feb 2013)

Jim Walsh: On the selective-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Discussion with Amnesty International Ireland (27 Feb 2013)

Jim Walsh: Does Mr. O'Gorman agree that selecting a child for abortion on the basis of that child having a disability is wrong?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Discussion with Amnesty International Ireland (27 Feb 2013)

Jim Walsh: I am just asking for Amnesty International's position. I accept that Mr. O'Gorman does not want to answer the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Discussion with Amnesty International Ireland (27 Feb 2013)

Jim Walsh: It is an important human rights issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Discussion with Amnesty International Ireland (27 Feb 2013)

Jim Walsh: I accept that he is not required to answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Discussion with Amnesty International Ireland (27 Feb 2013)

Jim Walsh: I know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Discussion with Amnesty International Ireland (27 Feb 2013)

Jim Walsh: That is what I thought. I accept that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Discussion with Amnesty International Ireland (27 Feb 2013)

Jim Walsh: I welcome Mr. Colm O'Gorman and Ms Iverna McGowan. I wish to follow up Deputy Crowe's point on the Palestinian refugee camps. Recently I and several colleagues visited Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. I must say we found the conditions appalling. We did not expect it to be wonderful, but we were shocked by what we saw. People received only one meal a day and between 12 and 16 people...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Jim Walsh: Senator Norris is ignorantly interrupting, as he normally does.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Jim Walsh: I am asking the Leader, in view of this intemperate situation, to ask the Minister for Health to come to the House to tell us when the findings of the report into the death of that lady will be announced to the House. I hope choreography is not at play here with regard to publishing the report at the same time as the heads of the Bill, which I suspect is what the Minister is about.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Jim Walsh: When the vote is made on this issue in the next few months, we will find out who is pro-abortion and who is not. That will be the acid test.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Jim Walsh: I will take up the point made by Senator Hayden. I, along with others from all sides of the House, regret that the mobility allowance is being terminated. I am sure we all have constituents who will be deprived as a result. Many of these people are in the autumn years of their life and some live alone. The allowance is a prerequisite for any reasonable quality of life for these people. I...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2013)

Jim Walsh: The Government is not dealing with it.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2013)

Jim Walsh: Senators should read the back of the Sunday Independent.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2013)

Jim Walsh: Who did the ploughing?