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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: No. If the Deputy sticks to the facts, there will be no need for any interruption. Please stick to the facts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: We are straying from the report. There is absolutely no suggestion of any event such as that being implied by the Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: It is in the report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: With respect, we are under pretty strict time pressure because of earlier contributions. We have the Senator's questions but I will take a question from Deputy Stanton before going back to the Minister and the Secretary General.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: Senator Craughwell has a few direct questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: If there is one about the Garda Síochána, it will not be taken.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: In fairness, Senator Craughwell is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: That is not an issue for this committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: It is not. It is an issue the answer to which Senator Craughwell was told before at this committee, and which he should know.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: It might be important but it is not one for this committee or for answer today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: We will not deal with it now because Senator Craughwell has been to the fore in requesting that this committee examine the circumstances surrounding the events of the evening of 17 June. Now, as indeed Deputy Brady has tried earlier, he wishes to shift the ground-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: It is being dealt with.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: I ask that Deputy Stanton’s questions be replied to, please, by the Secretary General and the Minister. I am also very keen to allow Deputy Gannon contribute as I am also watching the clock.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: Indeed. I call Mr. Hackett.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: I call Senator Joe O'Reilly, to be followed by Senator Wilson and Deputy Paul Murphy. We have had a lot of repetition, so I ask the Senators not to ask questions the Secretary General and the Minister have already fully answered.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: I come back to the Secretary General and the Minister, starting with the former, on the question of the office layout and social distancing and then moving on to the other questions Senator Joe O'Reilly raised.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: I call on Senator Wilson, to be followed by Deputy Paul Murphy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: I think that is what the Secretary General said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: That is not for discussion now, either.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: -----in order to question the Minister.