Member
Kathleen FUNCHION
The Left · Ireland
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 ⓘ
89.8 %
557 of 620 final votes while in office
The Left median: 86.9 % (+2.9 pts)
Chamber median: 90.6 %
With majority line ⓘ
86.4 %
477 of 552 votes where their group had a line
The Left median: 86.6 % (−0.2 pts)
9 opposite (for ↔ against), 20 abstained against the line, 13 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Kathleen FUNCHION | 89.8 % |
| The Left median | 86.9 % |
| Lowest in the group | 37.7 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.4 % |
| Members | 47 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Kathleen FUNCHION | 86.4 % |
| The Left median | 86.6 % |
| Lowest in the group | 64.5 % |
| Highest in the group | 91.8 % |
| Members | 47 |
- Whole term, 620 final votes; 620 of 794 decisions had a final vote recorded by name. The dots are the other members of The Left; 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.
Every roll-call vote of the term with the member’s position, newest first.
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" 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.
Work
Seats in committees, delegations and intergroups, and the dossiers the member leads, shadows or negotiates.
Seats
| Body | Role | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Committee on Employment and Social AffairsEMPL Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender EqualityFEMM Committee | Substitute | 23 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Regional DevelopmentREGI Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership AssemblyD-UK Joint parliamentary committee | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the United StatesD-US Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Intergroup on Cancer and Rare DiseasesIG10-05 Intergroup / working group | Member | 27 Jan 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Children’s RightsIG10-06 Intergroup / working group | Member | 19 Feb 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on DisabilityIG10-10 Intergroup / working group | Member | 11 Mar 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Mental HealthIG10-17 Intergroup / working group | Member | 5 Feb 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Trade UnionsIG10-24 Intergroup / working group | Member | 31 Jan 2025 | now |
Dossiers
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Foreign affairs 54
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 37
- Health 23
- EU budget & funds 20
- Economy & single market 18
- Defence & security 16
- Agriculture, food & fisheries 12
- Climate & environment 12
- Justice, rule of law & rights 12
- Trade & customs 11
- Digital, AI & data 7
- Transport & tourism 3
- EU institutions & Parliament 1
- Migration & asylum 1
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.
44 contributions recorded; 6 on behalf of their group; 53 minutes of speaking time.
| Date | Debate | Kind | Verbatim |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 20 May 2026 | Recent proposals to fight poverty in the EU (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 18 May 2026 | One-minute speeches on matters of political importance | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 29 Apr 2026 | Situation in Lebanon: implementation of the ceasefire, support peace efforts and humanitarian access (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 11 Mar 2026 | Child sexual abuse online: protect children, not perpetrators (topical debate) on behalf of The Left | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 12 Feb 2026 | Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (debate) on behalf of The Left | Speech · 2 min | Read |
| 10 Feb 2026 | Presentation of the action plan against cyberbullying (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 9 Feb 2026 | One-minute speeches on matters of political importance | Speech · 2 min | Read |
| 22 Jan 2026 | A new action plan to implement the European Pillar of Social Rights (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 21 Jan 2026 | Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2025 (A10-0253/2025 - David McAllister) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
Questions and motions, 110
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
| Date | Title | Kind | Answer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Sept 2026 | EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation E-10-2026-003871 | Written question | Not yet answered |
| 15 Sept 2026 | Common security and defence policy mission to Lebanon E-10-2026-003673 | Written questionwith 11 co-authors | Not yet answered |
| 15 Sept 2026 | Insurance for thatched roofing E-10-2026-003680 | Written question | Not yet answered |
| 10 Sept 2026 | Use of SAFE Regulation loans to procure cluster munitions and anti-personnel mines E-10-2026-003606 | Written questionwith 3 co-authors | Not yet answered |
| 8 Sept 2026 | Chatbots directing women with unwanted pregnancies to anti-abortion websites E-10-2026-003539 | Written questionwith 67 co-authors | Not yet answered |
| 7 Sept 2026 | Climate change, public health and the world of work: for a directive on maximum working temperatures O-10-2026-000035 | Oral questionwith 35 co-authors | Not yet answered |
| 16 Jul 2026 | Transport access for people with disabilities E-10-2026-003033 | Written question | 29 Sept 2026 |
| 16 Jul 2026 | VAT rates for beauty professionals E-10-2026-003034 | Written question | 25 Aug 2026 |
| 16 Jul 2026 | Sunbed controls E-10-2026-003032 | Written question | 11 Sept 2026 |
| 14 Jul 2026 | European Care Deal E-10-2026-002905 | Written question | 3 Sept 2026 |
Amendments tabled in committee, 54
Committee amendment documents that carry amendments by the member, with how many are theirs.
Connections
Dossiers they lead or shadow, committees, party, delegation and other related pages.
Political group
- Group The Left in the European Parliament (GUE/NGL) The Left · Left · democratic socialism, communism
National delegation
- Delegation Ireland National delegation
Sources & citation
Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.
- Official source
- Data source
- Licensed CC BY 4.0.
- Data version
- data version 343d33dd3e67 (2 Oct 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
- 2 October 2026
Cite as
EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Kathleen FUNCHION”. Member record. memberId 257299. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257299?page=77&scope=final&vscope=all (retrieved 2 October 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/257299. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/257299?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0); data version 343d33dd3e67 (2 Oct 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-257299,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Kathleen FUNCHION}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257299?page=77&scope=final&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257299?page=77&scope=final&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-10-02},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 257299. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/257299. Data: EP Open Data: member record (CC BY 4.0); data version 343d33dd3e67 (2 Oct 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}
}