{"id":130,"date":"2005-12-15T11:39:30","date_gmt":"2005-12-15T11:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/12\/15\/data-retention-how-your-meps-voted\/"},"modified":"2005-12-15T11:44:30","modified_gmt":"2005-12-15T11:44:30","slug":"data-retention-how-your-meps-voted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/2005\/12\/15\/data-retention-how-your-meps-voted\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Retention: How Your MEPs voted"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now, after a little help from Europe Direct<\/a> I can bring you the votes of Irish MEPs in relation to the final Data Retention Directive vote yesterday. (via the unworkable europarl<\/a> website)<\/p>\n

Dublin<\/strong>
\nProinsias De Rossa (Lab- ESP)- For
\nMary Lou McDonald (SF- GUE\/NLG)- Against
\nGay Mitchell (FG-EPP)- Against
\nEoin Ryan (FF-UEN)- Abstained<\/p>\n

East<\/strong>
\nLiam Aylward (FF-UEN)- Abstained
\nAvril Doyle (FG-EPP)- Abstained
\nMairead McGuinness (FG-EPP)- Abstained<\/p>\n

South<\/strong>
\nSimon Coveney (FG-EPP)- Abstained
\nBrian Crowley (FF-UEN)- Abstained
\nKathy Sinnot (Ind-IDG)- Not Present<\/p>\n

North West<\/strong>
\nMarian Harkin (Ind-ALDE)- Against
\nJim Higgins (FF-UEN)- Abstained
\nSean O’ Neachtain (FF-UEN)- Not Present<\/p>\n

So there you go. Labour’s MEP Proinsias De Rossa votes to bring in mass surveillance of internet usage, and to make challenges to our current law more complicated.
\nGay Mitchell voted against it, correctly breaking with the EPP grouping’s party line.
\nMary Lou McDonald also voted against, following her grouping’s party line.
\nMarian Harkin voted against and her grouping of Liberals was split, so credit to her for making the right decision. <\/p>\n

And then everyone else had no opinion on the introduction of mass surveillance of their constituents. An abstention is better than a vote in favour, I suppose. <\/p>\n

FF were clearly not willing to vote either way, as the government is in favour of the idea behind the directive, but has said it will sue over the method of bringing the law in. <\/p>\n

I was particularly surprised at Mairead McGuinness’ vote, given the very helpful, friendly and intelligent discussions she had with me in the days leading up to the vote. <\/p>\n

But there you are. Votes are what count. The Pro-Directive side won out in the end by 378 to 197 with 30 abstentions.<\/p>\n

Those are the votes of the Brussels jury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now, after a little help from Europe Direct I can bring you the votes of Irish MEPs in relation to the final Data Retention Directive vote yesterday. (via the unworkable europarl website) Dublin Proinsias De Rossa (Lab- ESP)- For Mary Lou McDonald (SF- GUE\/NLG)- Against Gay Mitchell (FG-EPP)- Against Eoin Ryan (FF-UEN)- Abstained East Liam Aylward (FF-UEN)- Abstained Avril Doyle (FG-EPP)- Abstained Mairead McGuinness (FG-EPP)- Abstained South Simon Coveney (FG-EPP)- Abstained Brian Crowley (FF-UEN)- Abstained Kathy Sinnot (Ind-IDG)- Not Present North West Marian Harkin (Ind-ALDE)- Against Jim Higgins (FF-UEN)- Abstained Sean O’ Neachtain (FF-UEN)- Not Present So there you go. Labour’s MEP Proinsias De Rossa votes to bring in mass surveillance of internet usage, and to make challenges to our current law more complicated. Gay Mitchell voted against it, correctly breaking with the EPP grouping’s party line. Mary Lou McDonald also voted against, following her grouping’s party line. Marian Harkin voted against and her grouping of Liberals was split, so credit to her for making the right decision. And then everyone else had no opinion on the introduction of mass surveillance of their constituents. An abstention is better than a vote in favour, I suppose. FF were clearly not willing to vote either way, as the government is in favour of the idea behind the directive, but has said it will sue over the method of bringing the law in. I was particularly surprised at Mairead McGuinness’ vote, given the very helpful, friendly and intelligent discussions she had with me in the days leading up to the vote. But there you are. Votes are what count. The Pro-Directive side won out in the end by 378 to 197 with 30 abstentions. Those are the votes of the Brussels jury.","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-rights","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}