Archive for the category: ‘Speeches’
European Semester and Ireland’s Draft National Reform Programme (Opening address to the Joint Committee on European Affairs)
1st April, 2014
I would like to thank the Committee for your invitation to join you today and welcome this opportunity to engage with you on the......
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Speech to the Joint Committee on EU Affairs on the National Reform programme
1st April, 2014
First, I thank the committee for its invitation to join members here today and welcome the opportunity to engage with them on the European......
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Keynote address at the Inaugural Michael Sweetman Memorial Lecture
26th March, 2014
Michael Sweetman was a man I did not know, with a legacy that I know intimately. A man tragically killed aged just 36 –......
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Speech to the EPP Congress 6th-7th March 2014
6th March, 2014
Good morning delegates and friends. Welcome to the National Convention Centre. I am delighted to welcome you to Dublin and to my constituency of......
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Speech by Minister for European Affairs, Paschal Donohoe TD, in the Dáil on the Government’s priorities for the year ahead
5th March, 2014
This week marks the third anniversary of the formation of this Government. We have come a long way since then. The Ireland of today,......
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Speech by Minister for European Affairs, Paschal Donohoe TD, to the 77th Fine Gael Ard Fheis
1st March, 2014
Driving Recovery in Europe: I remember the questions. I’m sure, Chairman, you heard them too. From constituents – worried that the euro would break......
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Speech by Minister for European Affairs, Paschal Donohoe TD, to the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM), Warsaw
28th February, 2014
An Irish perspective on a European future: A flag-filled horizon, set against the darkness of night and the shadows of buildings. All illuminated by......
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Statements in the Dáil on Ireland’s Engagement with Europe – Europe: why, how and to what end?
27th February, 2014
Ceann Comhairle, The concept of ‘Europe’ is an old convention, reaching back as a geographic term to the time of Homer in the 5th......
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Address by the Minister for European Affairs, Paschal Donohoe TD to the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Berlin
7th February, 2014
Ireland – a committed member of the European Union: In the early 1950s, Heinrich Boll, travelled to Ireland; a trip which inspired his book,......
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