Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 February 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

The Case of Mr. Sergei Magnitsky: Discussion

4:20 pm

Photo of Joe O'ReillyJoe O'Reilly (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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I thank the Chairman for welcoming those of us who are not regular committee members. We have come out of interest from a Council of Europe perspective in the case of me and Deputy John Paul Phelan. Deputy Ann Phelan's interests come from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. I join in welcoming Mr. Browder, and I share the admiration of others for his loyalty to a colleague and his almost single-handed pursuit of the matter.

What precisely does Mr. Browder want from the committee? Does he want a motion to go from the committee to the Government? Does he want us to suggest to the Government that it freezes the assets of people on the Magnitsky list and that it withdraw visas?