Results 3,041-3,060 of 16,849 for speaker:Dermot Ahern
- Seanad: Ethical Foreign Policy: Motion (28 Mar 2007)
Dermot Ahern: The Senator has not produced any evidence of that allegation other than television programmes.
- Seanad: Ethical Foreign Policy: Motion (28 Mar 2007)
Dermot Ahern: There is no question of prisoners having been transferred through Irish airports as part of an extraordinary rendition operation.
- Seanad: Ethical Foreign Policy: Motion (28 Mar 2007)
Dermot Ahern: The Government has received explicit assurances in this regard from the US authorities, which they have declined to provide to other European governments. Even the recent European Parliament report on extraordinary rendition is clear on this fact. Nowhere does it allege that prisoners might have transited through Ireland.
- Seanad: Ethical Foreign Policy: Motion (28 Mar 2007)
Dermot Ahern: The Government has taken a lead in actively raising the issue of extraordinary rendition with the US authorities and at EU level and we continue to do so.
- Seanad: Ethical Foreign Policy: Motion (28 Mar 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Moreover, as friends, we have never been in any way unwilling or hesitant to convey very clear views to the United States on, for instance, the treatment of prisoners, be it at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, or elsewhere.
- Seanad: Ethical Foreign Policy: Motion (28 Mar 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Ireland was the first EU country to call for the closure of Guantanamo but Senator Norris does not give us any credit for that.
- Seanad: Ethical Foreign Policy: Motion (28 Mar 2007)
Dermot Ahern: There can be no clearer example of our belief in the essential value and necessity of human rights and in our willingness to advocate them than in our support for action on the crisis in Darfur. The UN Human Rights Council held a special session in December 2006 to consider the urgent human rights situation there. Ireland, along with our EU partners, was instrumental in calling for this...
- Seanad: Ethical Foreign Policy: Motion (28 Mar 2007)
Dermot Ahern: A policy of suppression and intimidation of lawful opposition can only make the situation there more unstable. The deteriorating economic, social and political situation needs to be addressed urgently through dialogue between government and society, not presidential dictate. I call on the Zimbabwean Government to change course, respect the rule of law and respond to the clear suffering of...
- Seanad: Ethical Foreign Policy: Motion (28 Mar 2007)
Dermot Ahern: It is driven by our belief that the international community must respond to humanitarian crises and political oppression and that in doing so, we must invoke the universal standards of human rights. We must point to their grievous absence and measure progress by their application and enforcement. Aside from peacekeeping, perhaps the most tangible example of the ethical basis of our approach...
- Seanad: Ethical Foreign Policy: Motion (28 Mar 2007)
Dermot Ahern: That is balderdash and the Senators know that.
- Seanad: Ethical Foreign Policy: Motion (28 Mar 2007)
Dermot Ahern: That is nonsense.
- Seanad: Ethical Foreign Policy: Motion (28 Mar 2007)
Dermot Ahern: That is nonsense.
- Seanad: Ethical Foreign Policy: Motion (28 Mar 2007)
Dermot Ahern: No, we have not been in any shape or form.
- Seanad: Ethical Foreign Policy: Motion (28 Mar 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Absolutely not.
- Seanad: Ethical Foreign Policy: Motion (28 Mar 2007)
Dermot Ahern: It is not.
- Seanad: Ethical Foreign Policy: Motion (28 Mar 2007)
Dermot Ahern: The Deputy's view was challenged.
- Seanad: Ethical Foreign Policy: Motion (28 Mar 2007)
Dermot Ahern: The European Parliament does not know either.
- Seanad: Ethical Foreign Policy: Motion (28 Mar 2007)
Dermot Ahern: A certain Member of the European Parliament believed he knew.
- Seanad: Ethical Foreign Policy: Motion (28 Mar 2007)
Dermot Ahern: I, for one, will not take any lectures from "stickys" about human rights, and the Senator knows what I am talking about.
- Seanad: Ethical Foreign Policy: Motion (28 Mar 2007)
Dermot Ahern: Maurice Manning admitted it was politically motivated.