Yes - @Marie_Sherlock hope you’re aware of the Maternity Protection Bill I have written & placed before #Dáil . It provides a solution to the issue you highlighted. Happy to talk you & your colleagues through it & I’d welcome your support.
oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bill/…
Irish Cancer Society

Delighted to host ITIC - really useful discussion had with all those who attended. Tourism and hospitality is so important to our economy.

I had a very productive meeting with the ⁦⁦Irish Cancer Society⁩ who are supporting the MaternityProtectionBill that I introduced in the Dáil & which would allow mothers to postpone mat leave where they’ve been diagnosed with cancer or another serious illness during pregnancy

Irish 🇮🇪 people want to to help those in dire need - but also know that our current migration and asylum system is not fit for purpose. In fact, there is no system at all, and that is the problem.

The EU Migration Pact isn't perfect, but there is no perfect solution.

If we…

Thank you 🙏 MEPs Barry Andrews MEP & Billy Kelleher MEP for hosting the Irish Delegation representing Tourism & Hospitality to the European Parliament

Also to the team at HOTREC who lead the lobbying campaign on behalf of the Tourism & Hospitality Industry across EU thank you.

Delighted today, along with my colleague Billy Kelleher MEP, to welcome ITIC to the European Parliament where they undertook a series of meetings to discuss EU supports for the Irish tourism and hospitality sector.

The tourism industry is a major cog in the wheel of…

A proud moment - Ireland 🇮🇪 will formally recognise the state of Palestine.

Ireland has stood firm in its solidarity with the people of #Palestine and will continue to do so.

I commend the work carried out by Micheál Martin on this important recognition & I will continue to…

Thank you to MEPs Barry Andrews MEP & Billy Kelleher MEP for taking the time to welcome the ITIC Council to the European Parliament today🇪🇺

As I mentioned last week on RTÉ News, many EU 🇪🇺 Member States may be opening themselves up to accusations of 'facilitating' genocide under international law.

I will continue doing all I can in the #EuropeanParliament to ensure that we have an immediate & permanent #ceasefire ,…

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Today with Minister for Sport Thomas Byrne and local TD and Minister Jack Chambers TD - we visited a number of clubs in Dublin west to hear about their applications for Sports Capital Grants and their plans to develop the clubs further. Thanks to stperegrineofficial Westmanstown Golf…

Delighted to visit Castleknock GAA today with colleagues to hear about the club’s plans for further development.

We have a lot more work to do on #housing supply in Dublin but we are making real progress under the leadership of Darragh O'Brien.

See below the latest figures on #housing in #Dublin 👇

Join us on 18 April for a discussion on Ireland & Europe at a time of Transformations. Featuring Barry Andrews MEP, Cathal Berry TD TD, Susan Daly, Eoin O'Malley & Niels Kirst.

Register here 👉🏼 bit.ly/3VqKTmL

#UseYourVote

Delighted to attend this event this morning with Jim O'Callaghan TD in Mount Jerome Cemetery to commemorate Margaret Knight Connery who was an Irish suffragette and feminist activist who was born in 1881.

Known as Meg Connery, she was an advocate of women's voting rights, through…

Another example of brave Irish 🇮🇪 leadership backed up by concrete actions.

Irish government to stop investing almost €3m in companies based in illegal Israeli settlements - this will be implemented in the coming weeks.

#CeasefireNOW

It is beyond me why pro-Assad stooges Clare Daly and Mike Wallace are behind the UN Special Rapporteur’s Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt invite to EU Parliament, and why anyone would accept an invitation from 2 individuals who have consistently defended Assad, (a mass murderer), and covered up