Michael McNamara

The EU, SADC, EISA, KOMESA, stroke African Union, And especially the EU one that has even gone to court.

What did the EU state? Remember they had an observer mission that was led by chief observer Michael McNamara, who's a member of the European Parliament, but he's from Ireland.

They comprised 100 observers from EU member states and from Norway and Canada and then they covered all the 10 provinces.

They also collaborated with other observer missions and they also collaborated with Zambians.

Did anyone vote against it? Sinn Féin and Luke Wing Flanagan voted against it.

Michael McNamara abstained and all the other agents voted for it.

Yeah, but I mean, really disgraceful.

And I mean, that was matched with another one.

But a lot was still to be done, and we have, uh, worked on it in these, uh, two years of the new mandate already.

What I'm referring to, first of all, we established a implementation working group of the AI Act that I chair with another colleague, Michael McNamara.

Um, we are, uh, supervising the implementation of the AI Act, which means, uh, first of all, it was the prohibitions that needed to be checked upon.

That was the first part to be fully implemented.

So we have been working on supervising implementation, involving national parliaments and national authorities, uh, strengthening the AI office, looking at its building, of the building of the AI office, and this was one first very important point.

But the other one was also getting engaged with the digital omnibuses because one of them was exactly directed at the AI Act.

And to be frank, me and other colleagues didn't take very happily this decision of a, a revision of the AI Act even before we were fully implementing it.

We thought it was a bit far-fetched, a bit rushed, and, uh, impact assessment was not there.

They included Charles Haughey, who had been Minister for Finance at the time of the alleged conspiracy and who would later serve as Taoiseach.

Michael McNamara is a barrister with a keen interest in the career of Seamus Henshie.

Since 2024, he has served as a member of the European Parliament.

The arms trial was a huge moment in Irish history.

Justice Gerrit Hogan, Mr.

Justice John McMenamin, Jude Neelan, Professor Laura Cahalan, Ms.

Justice Marie Baker, Michael McNamara, Rune McCormack, and Professor Yvonne Scannell.