Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade
Business of Joint Committee
10:00 am
Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Senator Daly has submitted a motion for today's meeting. I call on him to move the motion.
Mark Daly (Fianna Fail)
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I am ready to move the motion but we will deal with it in Part B.
Mark Daly (Fianna Fail)
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Are we discussing it in Part B?
Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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We will deal with the motion now before we meet the witnesses.
Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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The motion is now.
Mark Daly (Fianna Fail)
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No, it is not. It is in the public part, motion re update on the Halawa case.
Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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It is on the business now before we meet the Palestinian visitors.
Mark Daly (Fianna Fail)
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No. It is stated on the agenda that the public part includes the motion re update.
Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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I do not mind. If Senator Daly wants to hold off, that is fine.
Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Okay, that is fine. I have no problem, one way or the other. I only thought Senator Daly wanted to deal with it early in the meeting.
Mark Daly (Fianna Fail)
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We will hear the witnesses.
Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Okay, that is fine. We will deal with it after the presentation.
Eric Byrne (Dublin South Central, Labour)
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On a point of information, I am confused about the motion. There seems to be a motion, which I do not have, on the update of the case. Then there is a motion here, from Senator Mark Daly, looking for the legal team. Which motion are we talking about?
Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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It is "the legal team" motion. It was on last week and Senator Daly was not present, and I decided I would put it off until this week when Senator Daly would be here.
Mark Daly (Fianna Fail)
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I thank the Chairman.
Eric Byrne (Dublin South Central, Labour)
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What is Senator Daly looking for?
Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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The motion is-----
Eric Byrne (Dublin South Central, Labour)
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What are we deferring?
Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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The motion states:
That the committee ask the legal team for Ibrahim Halawa to come before the committee and give an update on his case.
That is the motion that was submitted from Senator Daly. I propose we deal with it now. Senator Daly says it was in the agenda at this early stage, even though everybody is here.
Michael Mullins (Fine Gael)
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It is on the agenda that I got.
Mark Daly (Fianna Fail)
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We will deal with it later.
Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Does Senator Daly want to leave it or have it now?
Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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I would prefer to have it now because we would get our meeting over. The witnesses are not expected in for approximately ten minutes.
Mark Daly (Fianna Fail)
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We will deal with it later.
Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Does Senator Daly wish to leave it until later?
Eric Byrne (Dublin South Central, Labour)
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Is Senator Daly deferring the motion for a week?
Eric Byrne (Dublin South Central, Labour)
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What is Senator Daly going to do with it? I need the Chairman's direction. I have not a clue where we are going with this motion.
Eric Byrne (Dublin South Central, Labour)
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I have not a clue where we are going with this motion. Would the Chairman give us a clear explanation?
Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Senator Daly says it is down for later. We will deal with it afterwards, if he wants to propose to do so. I was only facilitating him by having it now.
Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein)
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Are we in public session?
Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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We are in public session. We will get the witnesses and start the presentation, and then we will deal with Senator Daly's motion afterwards. Is that agreed? Agreed.