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Data Retention: How your elected MEPs voted

Published by bbt December 15th, 2005 in bernard, data protection, data retention, digitalrights, digitalrightsireland, irish politics, irishblogs, personal, politics/world affairs, privacy, runningwithbulls.com

Today has been a mad busy day, and before I got a chance to check the European Parliament website to see how our elected MEPs voted on the Data Retention Law, Tuppenceworth has done the same.

Here are the votes:

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 out of the only 3 out of 13 MEPs that voted, one voted for, two against, and the rest abstained.

As Tuppenceworth says, an abstain is better than a yes. Still not enough NOs.

Congratulations to Proinsias De Rossa for being one of those making our laws tougher and more complicated!

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