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Member

Barry COWEN

Renew · Ireland

Group
Renew
Country
Ireland
Roll-call participation
79.5 %ⓘ of 620 roll calls in office · chamber median 90.6 % · whole term, final votes
With majority line
97.4 %ⓘ of 493 votes where the group had a line · Renew median 93.6 %
More facts (5)
National party
FF Fianna Fáil Party
In office
Since 16 Jul 2024
Against clear line
7 of 464 votesⓘ
Committees
AGRI, INTA (substitute)
Member id
257297
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Record

The member’s figures against the median of their group and of the chamber. Each vote counts the member in the group they belonged to that day.

Roll-call participation ⓘ

79.5 %

493 of 620 final votes while in office

Renew median: 91.5 % (−12.0 pts)

Chamber median: 90.6 %

With majority line ⓘ

97.4 %

480 of 493 votes where their group had a line

Renew median: 93.6 % (+3.8 pts)

Against clear line ⓘ

1.5 %

7 of 464 votes where their group had a clear line

6 opposite (for ↔ against), 1 abstained against the line

Abstention ⓘ

0.8 %

4 of 493 votes cast

Participation 79.5 % — Renew median 91.5 %, 76 members.ⓘ
Data as a table
Participation among the 76 members of the Renew with enough votes.
FigureParticipation
Barry COWEN79.5 %
Renew median91.5 %
Lowest in the group64.4 %
Highest in the group99.7 %
Members76
With majority line 97.4 % — Renew median 93.6 %, 76 members.ⓘ
Data as a table
With majority line among the 76 members of the Renew with enough votes.
FigureWith majority line
Barry COWEN97.4 %
Renew median93.6 %
Lowest in the group79.8 %
Highest in the group97.6 %
Members76
  • Whole term, 620 final votes; 620 of 794 decisions had a final vote recorded by name. The dots are the other members of Renew; no ranks.
  • “No vote recorded” is not the same as absent: leave, illness and chairing the sitting look the same.
  • A group’s line is inferred from its members’ votes — Parliament publishes no whip.

Votes, 5 928

Export

Every roll-call vote of the term with the member’s position, newest first.

Result: for–against–abstained. Majority line: how most of the member’s group voted that day (“Tie” when no position won). ≠ group marks a vote otherwise than a clear line (at least two thirds, with at least 10 members voting) of their group.
DateDecision and voteResultPositionMajority line
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Paragraph 69 — part 3 305 for, 309 against, 53 abstainedPosition: Against ≠ groupMajority line: For
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Paragraph 69 — part 2 355 for, 155 against, 159 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Paragraph 69 — part 1 528 for, 75 against, 67 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 16, adding text after paragraph 68 208 for, 400 against, 70 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 15, adding text after paragraph 68 198 for, 459 against, 14 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Separate vote on paragraph 68 480 for, 130 against, 67 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 108 to paragraph 68 97 for, 517 against, 56 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 14 to paragraph 68 231 for, 390 against, 53 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: For
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 85, adding text after paragraph 66 200 for, 425 against, 53 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 71, adding text after paragraph 64 102 for, 528 against, 46 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 70, adding text after paragraph 63 54 for, 569 against, 44 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 69, adding text after paragraph 63 52 for, 566 against, 43 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 68, adding text after paragraph 63 65 for, 571 against, 35 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 66 to paragraph 62 — part 2 227 for, 425 against, 21 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 66 to paragraph 62 — part 1 122 for, 502 against, 47 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 67, adding text after paragraph 61 64 for, 514 against, 93 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Separate vote on paragraph 59 476 for, 184 against, 13 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 65, adding text after paragraph 58 62 for, 588 against, 29 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Paragraph 58 — part 4 467 for, 114 against, 77 abstainedPosition: Against ≠ groupMajority line: For
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Paragraph 58 — part 3 373 for, 279 against, 24 abstainedPosition: Against ≠ groupMajority line: For
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 62 to paragraph 58 258 for, 383 against, 35 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 13, adding text after paragraph 57 191 for, 445 against, 31 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Separate vote on paragraph 57 466 for, 176 against, 36 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 12, adding text after paragraph 56 209 for, 283 against, 180 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 98, adding text after paragraph 55 92 for, 541 against, 40 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 61 to paragraph 54 176 for, 459 against, 25 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Separate vote on paragraph 52 439 for, 136 against, 96 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 48 188 for, 473 against, 20 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 97, adding text after paragraph 47 203 for, 456 against, 18 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 96, adding text after paragraph 47 203 for, 448 against, 13 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 103 to paragraph 46 — part 2 316 for, 281 against, 58 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 103 to paragraph 46 — part 1 478 for, 102 against, 94 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Paragraph 44 — part 2 513 for, 122 against, 32 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Paragraph 44 — part 1 561 for, 76 against, 41 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 101 to paragraph 39 159 for, 442 against, 73 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 11 to paragraph 37 236 for, 427 against, 16 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 100 to paragraph 34 281 for, 318 against, 78 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Separate vote on paragraph 33 581 for, 41 against, 57 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 59, adding text after paragraph 32 485 for, 129 against, 55 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 10 to paragraph 32 219 for, 445 against, 15 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: For
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Paragraph 29 — part 3 528 for, 63 against, 85 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Paragraph 29 — part 2 567 for, 27 against, 75 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 105, adding text after paragraph 22 523 for, 76 against, 72 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 84, adding text after paragraph 22 457 for, 172 against, 45 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 57, adding text after paragraph 22 77 for, 510 against, 71 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 56, adding text after paragraph 22 91 for, 501 against, 85 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 55 to paragraph 20 379 for, 270 against, 26 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Paragraph 19 — part 4 469 for, 132 against, 69 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Paragraph 19 — part 3 466 for, 142 against, 62 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Paragraph 19 — part 2 409 for, 208 against, 52 abstainedPosition: Abstained ≠ groupMajority line: For

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Roll-call participation

One cell per sitting while in office, shaded by the share of that day’s roll calls the member voted in. The official attendance register is kept separately by Parliament.

No vote recorded on 13 of 80 sittings with roll calls.

"No vote recorded" is not the same as absent: leave, illness and chairing the sitting look the same.

Data as a table

Voting neighbours

Members who voted the same way most often in the roll calls they both took part in, within and outside the member’s group (group at the date of each vote), over all roll calls of the term.

At least 200 shared roll calls over at least six months in office together. Within = both sat in the same group on the date of the vote; a member who changed group can appear on both lists. Baseline = the median agreement of all pairs of members of the groups the two sat in on the date of each shared vote (within: the group they shared; outside: the two groups), weighted by the votes they shared in each combination.

Within Renew

Agreement: roll calls where both cast the same position, of the roll calls both voted in while in the same group (“shared”); a count below 50 shared. Baseline: the median agreement of every pair of members of that group.
SelectMemberGroupCountryAgreementBaseline
Cynthia NÍ MHURCHÚ RenewIreland99 % of 4 877 shared92 %
Billy KELLEHER RenewIreland99 % of 4 703 shared92 %
Barry ANDREWS RenewIreland98 % of 4 451 shared92 %
Pina PICIERNO changed group RenewItaly92 % of 413 shared92 %
Gerben-Jan GERBRANDY RenewNetherlands92 % of 4 916 shared92 %
Charles GOERENS RenewLuxembourg92 % of 4 589 shared92 %
Raquel GARCÍA HERMIDA-VAN DER WALLE RenewNetherlands92 % of 4 919 shared92 %
Elisabetta GUALMINI changed group RenewItaly91 % of 1 395 shared92 %
Irena JOVEVA RenewSlovenia91 % of 4 743 shared92 %
Dainius ŽALIMAS RenewLithuania91 % of 4 546 shared92 %

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Outside the group

Agreement: roll calls where both cast the same position, of the roll calls both voted in while in different groups (“shared”); a count below 50 shared. Baseline: the median agreement of every pair of members of the groups the two sat in on those votes (groups at the date, weighted by the votes shared in each combination).
SelectMemberGroupCountryAgreementBaseline
Georgia TRAMACERE S&DItaly88 % of 1 626 shared86 %
Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ S&DSpain88 % of 4 603 shared86 %
Ana Catarina MENDES S&DPortugal88 % of 4 429 shared86 %
Birgit SIPPEL S&DGermany88 % of 3 852 shared86 %
Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ S&DLithuania88 % of 4 628 shared86 %
Isilda GOMES S&DPortugal88 % of 4 316 shared86 %
Lina GÁLVEZ S&DSpain88 % of 4 114 shared86 %
Carla TAVARES S&DPortugal87 % of 4 497 shared86 %
Marina KALJURAND S&DEstonia87 % of 4 575 shared86 %
Alicia HOMS GINEL S&DSpain87 % of 4 191 shared86 %

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Work

Seats in committees, delegations and intergroups, and the dossiers the member leads, shadows or negotiates.

Seats

Body: the committee, delegation or intergroup, with its kind. Role: the member’s role in it. From, To: the dates of the seat (“now” while it lasts).
BodyRoleFromTo
Committee on Agriculture and Rural DevelopmentAGRI CommitteeMember19 Jul 2024now
Committee on International TradeINTA CommitteeSubstitute19 Jul 2024now
Special Committee on the Housing Crisis in the European UnionHOUS Special committeeSubstitute23 Jan 2025now
Delegation for relations with South AfricaD-ZA DelegationSubstitute19 Sept 2024now
Delegation for relations with Australia and New ZealandDANZ DelegationMember19 Sept 2024now
Intergroup on Biodiversity, Hunting and CountrysideIG10-04 Intergroup / working groupMember4 Feb 2025now
Intergroup on Sustainable LivestockIG10-15 Intergroup / working groupMember31 Jan 2025now

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Dossiers

Dossier: the procedure the declaration names (“No dossier named” for a delegation without one). Role: rapporteur, shadow rapporteur, negotiator or delegation. Committee: the committee that appointed them. Date: of the declaration.
DossierRoleCommitteeDate
Conclusion, on behalf of the Union, of the Agreement in respect of Gibraltar between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the other partShadow rapporteurINTA22 Jul 2026
Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034RapporteurAGRI20 Jan 2026
No dossier namedOfficial delegationINTA22 Oct 2025
Accession of Vanuatu to the Interim Partnership Agreement between the European Community, of the one part, and the Pacific States, of the other partShadow rapporteurINTA23 Jun 2025
Implementation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation AgreementShadow rapporteurINTA30 Apr 2025
Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainShadow rapporteurAGRI17 Mar 2025
I have been invited to participate in the upcoming REGI Mission to Ireland on February 26. I have been allowed to attend due to the fact that the Mission is arriving in my home town in Ireland.Official delegation14 Feb 2025
NON-LEGISLATIVE REPORT - The future of agriculture and what CAP after 2027?Shadow rapporteurAGRI18 Dec 2024
The INTA Delegation to London, UK (28-30 October)Official delegation22 Oct 2024

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Topics they work on (model-assigned)

Counts: dossiers they spoke on, led or amended, and their questions and motions.

In the chamber

Speeches and statements in plenary debates, newest first; the verbatim report is on Parliament’s site.

34 contributions recorded; 2 on behalf of their group; 44 minutes of speaking time.

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Questions and motions, 13

Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.

Date: tabled. Title: the question or motion, with its id. Kind: written question or motion for a resolution, with the number of co-authors. Answer: the date of the answer to a question.
DateTitleKindAnswer
7 Jul 2026Supply of sustainable aviation fuel and implementation of the ReFuelEU Aviation Regulation E-10-2026-002800Written questionNot yet answered
7 Jul 2026Transparency regarding EU-funded infrastructure destroyed in Gaza E-10-2026-002805Written questionwith 39 co-authors4 Sept 2026
24 Jun 2026Accessibility of public services for individuals with learning disabilities E-10-2026-002619Written question18 Aug 2026
24 Jun 2026EU food additive rules and their impact on reformulation and sugar reduction E-10-2026-002615Written question24 Sept 2026
4 Jun 2026Vehicle type approval divergence and the Northern Ireland vehicle market E-10-2026-002316Written question7 Aug 2026
19 May 2026MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on holding Israel to account for breaches of human rights and international law B-10-2026-0267Motion for a resolutionwith 55 co-authors—
18 Mar 2026The impact on SMEs of the immediate application of anti-dumping duties on ceramic imports from China E-10-2026-001114Written question13 May 2026
20 Oct 2025Follow-up on the Commission’s answer to question E-001324/2025 on the compatibility with Community law of Italy’s Interministerial Decree Law No 688 of 24 May 2023 P-10-2025-004127Priority written questionwith 12 co-authors18 Nov 2025
7 Jul 2025Access to baby formula in Gaza O-10-2025-000023Oral questionwith 42 co-authorsNot yet answered
9 Apr 2025Possible deportation of EU nationals from Germany owing to their participation in public demonstrations E-10-2025-001457Written questionwith 6 co-authors4 Jun 2025

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Amendments tabled in committee, 71

Committee amendment documents that carry amendments by the member, with how many are theirs.

Date: of the amendment document. Text amended: the dossier and the document’s id. Committee: where the amendments were tabled. Amendments: how many in the document are the member’s.
DateText amendedCommitteeAmendments
13 Jul 2026Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790918 AGRI19
13 Jul 2026Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790957 AGRI18
13 Jul 2026Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790964 AGRI6
13 Jul 2026Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790899 AGRI14
13 Jul 2026Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790919 AGRI14
13 Jul 2026Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790956 AGRI10
13 Jul 2026Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790958 AGRI9
13 Jul 2026Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790954 AGRI11
13 Jul 2026Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790917 AGRI15
13 Jul 2026Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790955 AGRI17

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Connections

Dossiers they lead or shadow, committees, party, delegation and other related pages.

Political group

  • Group Renew Europe Renew · Centre · liberalism, pro-Europeanism

National delegation

  • Delegation Ireland National delegation

Sources & citation

Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.

Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Data version
data version 5a7357168c2a (28 Sept 2026) · methods: group-at-date v1, participation v1, abstention v1, loyalty v1, against-clear v1, cohesion v1, agreement v1, group-agreement v1, winning-side v1, similar-votes v1, scope v1, data-version v1 · methods
Retrieved
28 September 2026

Cite as

EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Barry COWEN”. Member record. memberId 257297. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257297?page=103&scope=final&vscope=all (retrieved 28 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/257297. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/257297?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0); data version 5a7357168c2a (28 Sept 2026) · methods: group-at-date v1, participation v1, abstention v1, loyalty v1, against-clear v1, cohesion v1, agreement v1, group-agreement v1, winning-side v1, similar-votes v1, scope v1, data-version v1.
BibTeX
@misc{epw-member-257297,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Barry COWEN}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257297?page=103&scope=final&vscope=all}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257297?page=103&scope=final&vscope=all},
  urldate = {2026-09-28},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Member record. memberId 257297. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/257297. Data: EP Open Data: member record (CC BY 4.0); data version 5a7357168c2a (28 Sept 2026) · methods: group-at-date v1, participation v1, abstention v1, loyalty v1, against-clear v1, cohesion v1, agreement v1, group-agreement v1, winning-side v1, similar-votes v1, scope v1, data-version v1}
}