Here's what you can expect of the people you're voting for on Friday...
Image: Wiktor Dabkowski/PA Image: Wiktor Dabkowski/PA THIS FRIDAY VOTERS will decide who will sit in Ireland’s seats in the European Parliament.
The main task of an MEP is to vote on European legislation – and these laws are then binding across the whole of the European Union. So, if there is a particular piece of legislation in Europe you have in interest in, you can contact your local MEPs and urge them to vote in a particular way.MEPs can also question and lobby the European Commission and the Council of Ministers. And the European Parliament decides on the EU budget and influences how EU money is spent.
There are currently eight political groups and each must have a minimum of 25 members, with representatives from at least seven of the member states. Some MEPs do not belong to any political group and are known as ‘non-attached members’. However it is by no means the largest – the parliament is dominated by two main groupings; the European People’s Party and the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.
During his time Murphy also worked with other left-wing MEPs in Europe to promote large-scale anti-austerity protests across the union.And Murphy also said he was able to use his voice in the parliament to bring attention to Irish issues. He gave the example of his use of parliamentary privilege to name the people involved in an €85,000 RTÉ payout over comments made by Rory O’Neill about homophobia.
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