Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade
Foreign Conflicts: Motion
10:00 am
Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Through the Chair, please. I simply have questions to ask in respect of the reply and I would like a more comprehensive reply. It is not a question of putting off the motion. We are going to deal with this motion and there is no problem about dealing with it. However, I think we should get a more comprehensive reply. One week is not going to make a difference. We are discussing an event that happened 100 years ago. It is not a question of opting out or anything like that. I simply want to get a more comprehensive reply from the Department, a complete departmental account as to why successive Governments did not call it a genocide. That is all. It is in my replies. That is what I am asking for. If that is not the case, then I will call a vote.
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