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- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) Projects: Motion (30 Jun 2022)
Charles Flanagan: These are big questions and-----
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) Projects: Motion (30 Jun 2022)
Charles Flanagan: -----I am not sure of the extent to which the Minister can answer them.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) Projects: Motion (30 Jun 2022)
Charles Flanagan: These are issues for Government. They may well be issues for the people. In any event, perhaps the Minister might make a brief comment in response.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) Projects: Motion (30 Jun 2022)
Charles Flanagan: Okay.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) Projects: Motion (30 Jun 2022)
Charles Flanagan: I thank the Minister. That is a reasonable note upon which to conclude our deliberations. Both the Taoiseach and senior Ministers, including the present Minister, have said in recent months, having regard to the context of all these debates, which is war in Europe, that we must be having a national conversation. However, while we are talking about having a national conversation, we see...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Message to Dáil (30 Jun 2022)
Charles Flanagan: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence has completed its consideration of the following motion: That, in accordance with the Programme for Government commitments, Dáil Éireann approves Ireland's participation in four Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) Projects: i)...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and UN Security Council: Engagement with Minister for Foreign Affairs (12 Jul 2022)
Charles Flanagan: We are pleased to be joined by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Coveney, to discuss matters that arose at recent meetings of the Foreign Affairs Council and the UN Security Council. As always, the Minister is very welcome. I also welcome the officials and thank them for the comprehensive briefing material that has been furnished to the committee. We are also joined by H.E. Mr....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and UN Security Council: Engagement with Minister for Foreign Affairs (12 Jul 2022)
Charles Flanagan: Yes, I intended to make that point. We will continue until 5.05 p.m. approximately, if that is okay. Would 5 p.m. be preferable?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and UN Security Council: Engagement with Minister for Foreign Affairs (12 Jul 2022)
Charles Flanagan: It is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and UN Security Council: Engagement with Minister for Foreign Affairs (12 Jul 2022)
Charles Flanagan: Of course, the Opposition is responsible for the motion in the Dáil. I will conclude the meeting at 4.55 p.m.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and UN Security Council: Engagement with Minister for Foreign Affairs (12 Jul 2022)
Charles Flanagan: I thank the Minister. I call Deputy Brady.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and UN Security Council: Engagement with Minister for Foreign Affairs (12 Jul 2022)
Charles Flanagan: I call Deputy Stanton, to be followed by Deputy Gannon.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and UN Security Council: Engagement with Minister for Foreign Affairs (12 Jul 2022)
Charles Flanagan: I am conscious of that fact that we have one Minister before us for questioning but two distinct Departments. So far there have been questions from Members on defence issues. Particularly in light of this morning's Government decision on a foreign affairs issue, I ask the Minister to keep the issues separate in his responses. I am conscious of the fact that a wide range of issues have...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and UN Security Council: Engagement with Minister for Foreign Affairs (12 Jul 2022)
Charles Flanagan: We can do that, Deputy, but your indication seemed to me to be one of urgency on your part. I-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and UN Security Council: Engagement with Minister for Foreign Affairs (12 Jul 2022)
Charles Flanagan: We have had a number of different questions over a wide range of areas, and it would be appropriate, as Deputy Gannon suggested, to allow the Minister to come back in now. Then I will come back to Deputy Gannon and Deputy Clarke, who has been offering for some time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and UN Security Council: Engagement with Minister for Foreign Affairs (12 Jul 2022)
Charles Flanagan: I thank the Minister. That is it for the moment. There are two Deputies offering. I am conscious of the clock and the motion of confidence in the Government taking place in the Dáil. I call Deputy Gannon. he will be followed by Deputy Clarke.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and UN Security Council: Engagement with Minister for Foreign Affairs (12 Jul 2022)
Charles Flanagan: I thank Deputy Gannon. I concur with him regarding his first question on Georgia. This committee has had a number of engagements with Georgia. We are conscious of the support within Georgia for the European Union and its values. There was disappointment, as the Minister will be aware, regarding the progress on the matter of its candidate status for accession. It appeared to us that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and UN Security Council: Engagement with Minister for Foreign Affairs (12 Jul 2022)
Charles Flanagan: There are a number of questions from the Deputies. I will very briefly refer, as Deputy Clarke has, to Ireland's current Presidency of the Council of Europe and request that perhaps consideration might be given towards advancing the application of Kosovo under our Presidency? It is an outstanding matter and obviously there are procedures involved. It would be most beneficial for Kosova if...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and UN Security Council: Engagement with Minister for Foreign Affairs (12 Jul 2022)
Charles Flanagan: I hesitate to interrupt the Minister but it was his own application that we would bring matters to a conclusion before 5 p.m. I am pointing the time out.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and UN Security Council: Engagement with Minister for Foreign Affairs (12 Jul 2022)
Charles Flanagan: I thank the Minister for meeting us and dealing with members' questions in the way he has. He indicated that he will be back at a date that is convenient to him and members of the committee. We thank him for that. We thank his officials, Ms Niamh Moore, Mr. Jonathan Conlon and Ms Siobhan Byrne.