An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Seanad Éireann — 2024-04-17
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Sharon Keogan (IND), Industrial and Commercial Panel

The events in Brussels yesterday were an attack on free and peaceful assembly. It is a bad look for a city proud of its role in the European project. If the EU was a proper democratic institution, we would call it hypercritical, but it is not democratic in its law-making. The hate speech Bill and the EU migration pact show us the threat it poses when it does not act on its democratic mandate.

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Sitting date: 2024-04-17