Results 1-20 of 215 for long speaker:Colm Brophy

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Colm Brophy: ...welcome. I thank them for attending. Before we begin our formal engagement, there is the usual housekeeping note. If everyone will bear with me, I will rattle it off. Witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him or her identifiable or otherwise...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Colm Brophy: No doubt she is aware, as a long-standing Member of the Oireachtas. There are regulations concerning the naming of individuals which I ask her to respect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Colm Brophy: ...The witnesses are all very welcome. I thank them for coming in. I will just read our normal housekeeping note on privilege, if the witnesses will bear with me. All witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him or her identifiable or otherwise engage in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Colm Brophy: ...or any other elections, though we are facing into the European elections, how do we, in a fast-moving age, try to combat information that appears during a cycle that is effectively three to four weeks long but is dealt with by bureaucracy, legislation and systems that require months, if not years, to respond? The reality of it is that the case I was referring to in the United States is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)

Colm Brophy: ...rights and combating disinformation. All of the witnesses are very welcome, and I thank them for joining us. Before I begin, I will go through a note on privilege. All witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him or her identifiable, or otherwise...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU General Affairs Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Colm Brophy: ...office, a committee and the Dáil. We welcome Martin to the Public Gallery. Before we begin, we have a note on privilege. I will go through the normal process of reminding the witnesses of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him or her identifiable, or otherwise...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU General Affairs Council Meeting: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Colm Brophy: ...of State. I call on Deputy Haughey and I acknowledge his recent announcement. He is one of the key members of this committee and his wisdom and contributions, since I have become Chair and long before that, have always been appreciated. Thankfully, we still have many months of the Deputy's involvement, but it is just to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union: Ambassador of Belgium to Ireland (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Brophy: ...of luck with its Presidency and look forward to hearing its priorities. Before we begin our discussion, I will read the usual note on housekeeping matters. All witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him or her identifiable, or otherwise engage in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Georgia's Application to join the European Union: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Colm Brophy: ...one of his senior councillors. They are all very welcome. Before we begin the formal session, we have what we call a note on privilege that I must read out. All witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him or her identifiable or otherwise engage in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Court of Auditors Annual Report 2022: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Colm Brophy: ...morning. Before we begin, I will read the note on privilege, which I have no doubt everyone will be very familiar with but I have to go through it every time. All witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him or her identifiable or otherwise engage in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Court of Auditors Annual Report 2022: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Colm Brophy: ...stake here. The worst problems are always incurred by things that are put in place to deal with a crisis. Everybody's attention is off the ball in terms of the back-end regulatory stuff and the long term implications because they are all trying to dig themselves out of the current hole they are in. Should the court of auditors not be shouting louder and harder? Should it not be saying...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Future Treaty Change in the European Union: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Colm Brophy: ...'s meeting, we will be discussing future treaty changes in the European Union. Before we start, there is always a little note on privilege I have to read out. All witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him or her identifiable or otherwise engage in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Future Treaty Change in the European Union: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Colm Brophy: ...fulfilled every single monetary requirement and every single security requirement, to see existing member states blackball their membership of Schengen is as divisive an issue as I have seen in a long while at European level, where normally people work for cohesiveness. If that is what we can get out of the Schengen argument, imagine taking it into areas that are far more contentious. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Union and the Commission Work Programme: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Colm Brophy: ...EU and the Commission's work programme. We very much look forward to that engagement on it. Before we begin, we have some housekeeping matters to deal with. All witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him or her identifiable or otherwise engage in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ireland and the EU 2023 Poll Results: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Colm Brophy: ...officer, and Dr. Matthew G. O'Neill, EU information and research officer. We will be discussing the findings of European Movement Ireland's 2023 opinion poll. All witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him or her identifiable or otherwise engage in speech...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Unlocking EU Funding: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Colm Brophy: ...to discuss matters relating to unlocking EU funding. Before we get into it, there are a couple of housekeeping matters we must address at the start of each meeting. All witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him or her identifiable or otherwise...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Colm Brophy: ..., and any dossier entrusted to it by the European Council. That is a fairly broad remit. Before we begin, I want to do a little bit of housekeeping on privilege. Witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him or her identifiable, or otherwise engage...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Colm Brophy: ..., with the exception of the rule of law which the Minister of State quite correctly highlighted, is one of the most unacceptable proposals that I have seen coming out of Franco-German thinking in a long time in relation to the European Union. It is not a path for the European Union. It is a path to the dissolution of the European Union as we know it today. Whether one dresses it up or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (11 Oct 2023)

Colm Brophy: ...the Government agrees. When we went through the Lisbon process, the idea behind it was to future-proof enlargement. Calling a spade a spade, what is beginning to happen is that having strung along a number of applicant countries for a long period, we are trying to change the ground rules and focusing on an internal process to see how we might adjust our own structures. If that process...