Hi everyone !
Tonight, I’m **interviewing Irish MEP Maria Walsh** from the **EPP group**, on my Twitch channel. I will be asking her about hier EU political experience, her priorities, but also asking some of your questions and those of the audience.
Maria Walsh has been an Irish MEP since 2019. She’s a member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, the Committee on Culture and Education and a substitute in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
Within these committees, she works on issues such as mental health and youth policy.
The aim of these interviews is for people to discover their MEPs, learn about what they do, their expertise and interact with them. It is intended as a pedagogic way to learn about your representatives in Brussels and EU politics, so we won’t go deep into policy debates and **we won’t cover national politics** (unless it is very relevant to the EU).
While most of my current community belongs to the EU bubble, I want to reach people who might be interested in the EU without being in Brussels, so they get a chance to exchange with people and experts from there and maybe learn some new things along the way. In this precise case, since the MEP is Irish I thought it would make sense to give Irish people the opportunity to pitch in 🙂
So feel free to **suggest down here questions you would like Maria Walsh to answer** !
In any case, join the discussion **tonight at 20:00** CET on [Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/mepassistant) !
You can also join my community on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/mepassistants) (@mepassistants) or [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/y5rPHF3Pgu).
19 comments
What was your job before?
Why have members of your party been prominent in spreading misinformation about the proposed turf cutting ban?
This relevant to the EU under the habits directive.
> won’t cover national politics
Convenient.
Ask her is she proud she voted to let migrants drown in the Mediterranean
Why do you support one group of refugees drowning in the Mediterranean but welcome a other group with open arms?
Doubt you’ll take the question though
Does her dual citizenship pose any problems and/or opportunities for her as an MEP?
Does she have any suggestions about how Ireland can more quickly end its fossil fuel addiction, particularly with regard to transport?
Gravy train.
Can you ask her how she came up with one of the [cringiest political ads ever?](https://mobile.twitter.com/mariawalsheu/status/1131154074747973632)
A Twitch interview with an EPP rep is like a young FG episode of Black Mirror
Fine Gael are members of the EPP, who spent YEARS wringing their hands over Victor Orbán, until he decided to leave. Do you think being part of a party who were so slow to condemn human rights abuses, rule of law backsliding and press suppression is the best path for Ireland/FG?
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Would she tell Frank Feighan to cop the fuck on?
Ask her what is it about Africans that made her decide they should be left to drown in the Mediterranean
Ask her why it’s ok to vote for African refugees to drown but open arms for Ukrainians
What influence does the European Parliament or other democratic European bodies have over European Central Bank policy?
Maria Walsh voted down a move to enhance rescue operations for migrants. In your own mind – how do you go about justifying a morally reprehensible action like this? I mean mechanically, what is the approach to structuring the argument?
How long did her oldest Tamagotchi live for?
Does she acknowledge that the EU is not a democracy? Voting for MEPs doesn’t matter, as the Commission decides. No one voted for Ursula von deleyn, of course …
Will you beat the shit out of Wallace and Daly live in the chambers with a hurley please, whilst shouting “Lie down you thick cunts!!” Thanks in advance.