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Chris MacManus

Chris MacManus

Sinn Féin

A vote for Sinn Féin is a vote to elect a strong team of hard-working Sinn Féin MEPs who will work night and day to deliver on the issues that matter to you and your family: the cost-of-living crisis, improving wages and conditions, regional development, and economic development.

Priorities

  • Other

    Combating regional imbalance: I will fight to ensure the Midlands Northwest gets its share of EU funding & is prioritised for national investment

  • Other

    Irish Unity: I will use my position as an MEP to ensure that the EU is proactive in support of a United Ireland.

  • Foreign policy

    I will defend Ireland’s neutrality and work for recognition of the position of neutral states within the EU Treaties.

These answers were provided by the candidate

EU integration
1 of 21 questions
European integration has gone too far
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "The European Union works best when it works on those issues which are best suited to a collaborative approach. Sinn Féin favour the EU focusing on the basics, such as regionally balanced economic development, works and consumers rights and those issues which are best dealt with collectively."

- Chris MacManus
EU enlargement
2 of 21 questions
It would be good if Ukraine joins the EU in the next five years
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "It is accepted that Ukraine will not be ready for membership within the next five years. All members must meet the membership criteria, particularly on corruption & human rights, while consideration & planning must also be put in place so there is not a negative impact on Ireland's CAP receipts."

- Chris MacManus
Economic policy
3 of 21 questions
Corporation tax rates should be fully harmonised across the EU
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "Absolutely not and Sinn Féin will oppose any proposals to weaken sovereignty of Member States over tax policy."

- Chris MacManus
Economic policy
4 of 21 questions
The EU budget should be increased, even if this means wealthy countries paying more
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "Sinn Féin does not support an ever increasing EU budget to fund ever increasing powers. Like all bodies spending taxpayers’ money the EU and its agencies should be accountable and fully transparent in all expenditure."

- Chris MacManus
Commission President
5 of 21 questions
Ursula von der Leyen should receive a second term as Commission President
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "Her unconditional support to Israel enabled the Israeli genocide in Palestine. As well as the terrible consequences for the Palestinian people, these actions damaged the EU and its reputation internationally. It undermined the EU’s ability to be a voice for peace and for human rights in the world."

- Chris MacManus
Defence
6 of 21 questions
EU member states, including Ireland, should collaborate more on defence and security
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "Irish neutrality is a strength and allows us to play a positive and constructive role in the world. Ireland’s neutral status and independent foreign policy must be protected. Sinn Féin wants to ensure the EU works for peace, security and the protection of human rights. "

- Chris MacManus
Defence
7 of 21 questions
The EU should have a common army
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "Sinn Féin wants to ensure the EU works for peace, security and the protection of human rights. I will work against the creation of an EU army."

- Chris MacManus
Defence
8 of 21 questions
The EU should finance more weapons for Ukraine
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "I support aid and reconstruction financing for Ukraine and voted in favour of this funding in the European Parliament. I do not support EU funding of weapons. "

- Chris MacManus
Defence
9 of 21 questions
Ireland should retain its ‘triple lock’ rule for deploying troops
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "The triple lock neutrality protection is central to Ireland’s ability to play a positive and constructive role in the world. Sinn Féin MEPs will defend Ireland’s neutrality and work for recognition of the position of neutral states within the EU Treaties. "

- Chris MacManus
Foreign policy
10 of 21 questions
The EU should suspend its trade agreement with Israel
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "Sinn Féin believes that Israel should not enjoy preferential economic relations with the European Union while it remains in breach of international law. As with Russia, the European Union should deploy every diplomatic, political and economic lever to pressure Israel to cease such breaches."

- Chris MacManus
Foreign policy
11 of 21 questions
Each member state should have a veto on EU foreign policy
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "Sinn Féin will fight to keep Ireland’s veto in order to protect us from the political, economic and military interests of the bigger Member States. "

- Chris MacManus
Immigration
12 of 21 questions
Ireland should participate in the EU’s new migration pact
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "The EU's Asylum & Migration Pact is a mixed bag of 7 proposals. Alongside Denmark, we have the opportunity to remain outside all or some of these EU measures. We should use that ability to opt-out. We are strongly of the view that opting-into all or most of them would not be in Ireland's interest."

- Chris MacManus
Immigration
13 of 21 questions
Member states should share responsibility for asylum applications in the EU
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "Some decisions are better taken locally & one size does not fit all. We want a system that recognises each Member State is different and faces different pressures at any given time. E.g. the capacity constraints in terms of accommodation, health services & school places are particularly grave here."

- Chris MacManus
Immigration
14 of 21 questions
The EU should operate search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "Unlike Fine Gael MEPs, Sinn Féin has supported the continuation of search and rescue operations."

- Chris MacManus
Immigration
15 of 21 questions
Ireland needs to do more to ensure asylum applicants have suitable accommodation
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "In the European Parliament and in the Oireachtas, Sinn Féin will support measures that are in the best interests of Ireland, which would aid us to transform our asylum system into one that is fair, efficient and enforced and we will oppose opting-into the measures that are not helpful."

- Chris MacManus
Immigration
16 of 21 questions
There should be checkpoints at the border with Northern Ireland to limit the number of asylum seekers coming to Ireland
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "I don’t want to see any border on the island of Ireland. People arrive in Ireland via several means. The key issue is what happens when they get here. We need decisions made quickly & they need to be enforced."

- Chris MacManus
Environment
17 of 21 questions
The EU’s Nature Restoration Law, requiring rewetting of peatlands, should be adopted
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "Sinn Féin supports nature restoration but the EU law will not achieve that because it is not properly resourced. "

- Chris MacManus
Environment
18 of 21 questions
The EU’s goal of a 55% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 is too ambitious
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Environment
19 of 21 questions
More windfarms (including onshore windfarms) should be built in Ireland
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "We need to build out our renewable energy infrastructure. This should be done in consultation with local communities, prioritising community-owned, decentralised energy production wherever possible. Protection of biodiversity must be ensured and environmental planning law respected."

- Chris MacManus
Agriculture
20 of 21 questions
Ireland should continue to seek special treatment for Irish farmers on the Nitrates (water quality) directive
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "SF fully supports retention of the derogation in full whereby it can be shown that water quality can be maintained or improved as necessary."

- Chris MacManus
Agriculture
21 of 21 questions
The EU should reduce subsidies for high-emissions farming, such as beef and dairy
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "Farmers need supports to make the changes necessary to reduce emissions and protect biodiversity. Family farmers are integral to our rural communities."

- Chris MacManus