Mr. John Kierans, Editor, Irish Daily Mirror, Mr. Gerard Colleran, Editor, Irish Daily Star

 Senator Déirdre de Búrca:   I will be very quick as I am sharing time with Senator Doherty. I welcome the delegation and I thank it for the frank presentations. The opinion from all media representatives who have appeared before the sub-committee is that, [...]

Mr. Alexander Stubb, Foreign Minister of Finland

 Senator Déirdre de Búrca:   I welcome the Minister, Mr. Stubb, to the committee. I heard him speaking at an OSCE meeting at the Parliamentary Assembly in Kazakhstan.

Mr. Alexander Stubb:  Oh my God.

Senator Déirdre de Búrca:   It is good to hear him speaking again. He is very welcome to Ireland.Ireland has always regarded [...]

Ms Ann Cahill, Irish Examiner, Mr Frank Cullen, National Newspapers of Ireland (NNI)

 Senator Déirdre de Búrca:   I apologise for being periodically absent from the meeting for various reasons. My question is related to the last point Mr. Cullen made about the extent to which he believes the political establishment is not generating good quality information about [...]

Mr Willie O’Reilly, Chairman, Independent Broadcasters of Ireland, Mr Michael Good, RTÉ, Mr Cillian dePaor, RTÉ

Senator Déirdre de Búrca:   I thank the delegations for their presentations.

 During a referendum there is a requirement on, particularly public service, broadcasters to provide equal coverage to both sides, a principle we all support. It is important when an EU treaty [...]

I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion on tourism. We should note the impressive figures for the number of overseas visitors to this country. The number exceeded 8 million for the first time in 2007, an increase of more than 33% since 2001. That is a most impressive statistic and the Government and [...]

Mr Farrel Corcoran, Professor of Communication, DCU

Senator Déirdre de Búrca:   I thank Professor Corcoran for his presentation as it is very interesting and so much of it resonates with our own experience. It seems there is a yawn factor that applies to EU news. The national media do not seem that interested in covering EU issues [...]

Representatives of the Institute of International and European Affairs, Ireland (IIEA):  Mr Brendan Halligan, Chairman, Ms Jill Donoghue, Director General, Mr Peader O’ Broin, Senior Researcher, Mr Patrick Keating, Professor Emiritus, Trinity College Dublin, Mr Anthony Brown, Chairman IIEA Publications Committee

Senator Déirdre de Búrca:   I welcome the delegation from the institute and thank them for their [...]

Professor Richard Sinnott, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin

 Senator Déirdre de Búrca:   I welcome Professor Sinnott. Has his analysis of the referendum results given any indication as to the specifics as to why people voted “Yes”? The sub-committee received another paper which suggested people who had voted “Yes” tended to do so on [...]

Green Party Senator and European Candidate, Deirdre De Burca, and Green Party local representative for Fingal, Simon Herbert, have joined forces to urge residents in Dublin West to add their names to the Register of Electors prior to the European and Local elections in June 2009.

In order to vote during the Local and European [...]

Irish voters cannot be asked to vote again on the Lisbon Treaty – unless clear and legally binding guarantees are given by our EU partners on Ireland’s key concerns, Senator Deirdre de Burca said today.

The Green Party Senator and Dublin candidate for Europe said the way the EU dealt with the Danish people’s concerns, after [...]