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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: 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.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: I thank the Deputy and return now to members' questions. The next speakers are Deputy Gannon followed by Senators Joe O’Reilly and Wilson, and I am very keen then to accommodate Deputy Paul Murphy who has joined us as a visitor. I call Deputy Gannon.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: Deputy Murphy was here at the start of our meeting and I am sure that he is a member of other committees of the House. I remind him of the the long-standing parliamentary practice that members should not comment on, criticise or make charges against any person outside the House, or any official by name or in such a way as to make them in any way identifiable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: The Deputy has heard what the Secretary General has said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: I would ask him to accept his bona fides on the matter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: There were a lot of articles written by a lot of people as Deputy Murphy well knows.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
Charles Flanagan: I take it neither the Secretary General nor the Minister wishes to add to anything that has already been said at the meeting. That being the case, I will bring the matter to a conclusion and we will draw a line under this issue. I thank the Secretary General for coming here and for the comprehensive report which was circulated to members some time ago in preparation for this meeting. I...