Grace O'Sullivan MEP @GraceOSllvn@respublicae.eu
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Climate & social justice activist 🌍. Ecologist 🌱. Surfer 🏄🏼♀️. Mother.
Green MEP for Ireland South 🇪🇺. @greenparty_ie spokesperson on the marine.
Joined Apr 2022
I'm delighted to welcome German MEP @juttapaulusrlp for this public event, who was negotiator on behalf of the Green group for this file.
Just this week we have seen a lot of disinformation and misguided anger related to the NRL -
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⚠️Our planet's biodiversity is in crisis, and we know that we needgive the earth some time to breathe and replenish herself
The EU Nature Restoration Law should lead us on this path - but what does it actually mean to restore nature, and what will that look like here in Ireland?
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@d_boeselager @elonmusk @AOC The grey tick comes from within 🧘🏼♀️
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Doing my best múinteoir pose in this pic 🫣
Interesting article on our ongoing negotiations to cut the useless and unnecessary plastic waste that has invaded society
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Disappointed, to say the least, that @EPPGroup has decided to be the ‘anti-climate action party’ in the European Parliament, despite no evidence behind their claims. I will be looking to engage with my colleagues to change their minds on key legislation.
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RT @EPPGroup: The Commission’s Green Deal proposals will:
🔵Make a big hole in the already very thin farmers’ budgets
🔵Endanger availability of European food
🔵Increase inflation
…
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@brian_daly Thanks for the question! I’m the @GreensEFA group’s lead negotiator on this legislation - for the next few months will be fighting for the most ambitious position in terms of cutting plastic production and waste.
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🚂 Voting and debates take centre stage in the European Parliament in Strasbourg this week. Here’s what we’re working on:
🇺🇦solidarity and support for Ukraine
🙅🏼♀️Combatting domestic violence
🌊 ocean protection
☘️ standing up for the Green Deal
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GraceOSllvn/status/1655487164874981376
Very proud of my nephew Tom Breen who is absolutely ripping it here at the World Longboard Championships- he's the guy in the hat!! 🏄♂️
Ireland excelling internationally in this growing sport @cathmartingreen 😉
@ISAsurfing @IrishSurfing
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"The taxpayer is currently the one who pays for the disposal or recycling of plastic waste.
Reintroducing reuse (like we were used to doing not too long ago!) would put the onus back on industry and retail to clean up their act, and their dishes."
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@Lemapal Thanks Lema - it’s in Cork though we do allow Dublin people sometimes 😉
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🇵🇸Palestinian food from the wonderful @IzzCafe will also be on offer - all are welcome
WHEN? Thursday 11th May @ 7:30pm
WHERE? T12 NX 77
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Next week, my Cork office will host a remembrance event for murdered journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
We'll be screening the documentary made by @AJEnglish about her death, and welcome speakers from Ireland and Palestine about her legacy and the ongoing political situation.
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RT @TomMacSweeney: Sea-levels have risen between 2-3 mm per annum since the 1990s and there has been a rise of 0.5C in sea surface temperatures on Ireland’s north coast over the past ten years according to the Marine Institute’s Irish Ocean Climate and Ecosystem Status Report. https://t.co/BDwsq54lQw
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I remember as a lifeguard already in the late 1970s seeing plastic pellets (or ‘nurdles’) wash up on our beaches 😱
With @surfridereurope here looking to tackle issue of plastic pellets in the sea once and for all 🌊
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@JohnReynol64448 Thanks for the comment Jack. If public figures don’t raise it then indeed nothing is ever going to happen. I was elected on my record of fighting against environmental and social injustice and I intend to keep up the fight.
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@LiamQuaide @CaoimheButterly @jeremycorbyn @AaronBastani @neasa_neasa I understand Seán has repeatedly tried to apply for Irish citizenship but has been blocked by the ridiculous charges that hang over him. Have been in regular contact with Ministers for Justice to speed up his citizenship process given the circumstances. It’s just not good enough.
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A Palestinian school built with Irish donations is threatened with demolition. EU-funded schools have been raised to the ground by Israel in the past.
What sense is there in destroying a place of education, and why does the EU continue to let it happen?!?
RT @IrlRepRamallah: 2nd time in 2 weeks visiting a school in the West Bank at risk of imminent demolition. Ein Samiya was funded by 🇮🇪 & other WBPC donors. Education is a basic human right and must be protected…
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More than disappointed that conservatives (the biggest group in the European Parliament) are set to reject all EU action against climate change and biodiversity loss.
How will we tell the next generation we saw the danger and refused to act?
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Speaking today in Parliament as @GreensEFA negotiator of plastic packaging legislation.
It's not acceptable to ask taxpayers and the environment to foot the bill of recycling and incineration.
We need to cut the production of unwanted plastic in the first place 🙅
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@jo_linehan Now that's good news! 👏
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Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Climate & social justice activist 🌍. Ecologist 🌱. Surfer 🏄🏼♀️. Mother.
Green MEP for Ireland South 🇪🇺. @greenparty_ie spokesperson on the marine.
Joined Apr 2022
