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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Education in Developing Countries: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: It also demonstrates how one can turn a challenging negative into a positive. Thank you for that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Education in Developing Countries: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: I am going to wind our way towards a conclusion. On behalf of the joint committee, I thank our guests for joining us and for their submissions and the comprehensive manner in which they dealt with members' questions. As I said, this is an area the committee has indicated will be a specialist topic for us during the course of the year and on which we intend to produce a report. This...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Education in Developing Countries: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: We will include reference to that. I want to acknowledge what Deputy Brady said earlier when he indicated a proposal that we would accept the recommendations as put forward and we should do that. We can include reference to what Senator Craughwell said, albeit that is a difficult political issue. I agree we should look at options when it comes to Afghanistan but there are real and serious...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Education in Developing Countries: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: I thank Ms McKenna for being with us and we look forward to continued engagement throughout the year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: I welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence, Deputy Coveney, and the Secretary General at the Department of Foreign Affairs, Joe Hackett, to discuss the published report into the workplace arrangements in Iveagh House on 17 June 2020. I understand the Minister and the Secretary General will be making opening statements and following this we will move to questions and answers with...
- 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, Deputy Brady, that is speculative question.
- 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, Deputy Brady, that has already been covered.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: I am not going to allow questions on that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: I will not take any reference to that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: No. I am going to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: Deputy Brady, please. You have made allegations directly against the Minister in a way that is fundamentally unfair. Members have been publicly asking questions on this issue of June 2020.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: You are not allowed to entitled to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: -----stray beyond the agenda. Members of this committee have been making public commentary in the media and the Chamber. They have been requesting that we have a hearing with the Minister and that he and the Secretary General be called before this committee to deal with the issue of June 2020. We are now doing that. We have had the full co-operation of the Secretary General. We have had...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: I will not allow such comparison.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: There is absolutely no question of censoring but there is a question that we stick to the agenda.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: I am asking you to do it and not to depart from the agenda because I will not tolerate it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: Thank you.
- 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 the Minister not to make reference to that, please. We are dealing with the issue we have been requested to deal with, namely, the issue of the evening of 17 June 2020. I call on Deputy Brady to ask a final question and then I will move on to Senator Ardagh.
- 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 have any reflection cast on the Minister, Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: Please conclude.