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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Global Irish - Ireland’s Diaspora Policy: Minister of State at Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (1 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: What is really phenomenal is how native people, Asians and others, have engaged with clubs and taken up playing the games. It is extraordinary.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad: Motion (1 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: I will.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad: Motion (1 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: I welcome the motion, but I also welcome the comments in the Minister's letter and particularly the fact that we have lodged documents with the court. His lawyers include diplomatic documents from us with regard to his release. The Chairman, I and others met Ibrahim with his sisters in Cairo prior to their arrest but during the protests. They struck us as people who were there for a bit of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad: Motion (1 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: Could we agree the motion before suspending?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad: Motion (1 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: I do not disagree with a lot of what has been said by Deputy Durkan and I agree with everything Deputy Eric Byrne said. There is no implicit criticism in this motion of the Minister and I endorse the comments of Senator Daly and Deputy Brendan Smith in this regard. The Minister has shown real competence and I have praised him on his work on Northern Ireland. I fully accept that he will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad: Motion (1 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: I appreciate that we are trying to come to a conclusion when we are all together. That is important. I am still having difficulty understanding the reluctance to accept the motion that has been put. There is no time factor in it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad: Motion (1 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: I am not. I have accepted everything and welcome the Minister's letter. I do not understand the reluctance because the motion does not have a time factor. While I accept there is a judgment call as to whether one does it before or after the court process, I am mindful that the courts have been postponed many times. He has been in prison for almost two years. As has been said, he has no...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad: Motion (1 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: Will members be given copies of the letter to the Taoiseach prior to the next meeting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Security Situation in Kenya: Ambassador of Federal Republic of Kenya (22 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: I welcome the ambassador and wish him well on his appointment. We have all followed with alarm what is happening right across parts of Africa, including Kenya, and the Middle East. Every right-thinking person is revolted to see young students with their lives ahead of them and all their ambitions to be realised being slaughtered in the manner in which they were in Kenya. The victims were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: I support the timely motion put forward by my colleague, Senator Daly. We have just passed the centenary of that awful atrocity. The New York Timesrecently noted that Armenians say that up to 1.5 million Armenian Christians were systematically slaughtered in eastern Turkey through mass killings, forced relocations and starvation. Many historians and legal scholars have called the Armenian...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: Chairman, we are not here as a elected members of the committee to be led by the nose by the Department. This is a straightforward incident in history on which the members of the committee can take a view. Some may not want to condemn it and some may wish to condemn it. I am in the latter group. I do not think the Department's views are relevant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: On a point of order, we do not all have the same concern. The motion was very clear that the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade recognises the suffering and loss of the Armenian people this year, the year of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: That is what the Fine Gael and Labour Party members voted against.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: Let us call a spade a spade.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: The Government is involved in too much spin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: The Chairman is spinning so much he does not even know when he is doing so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Migration to Europe: Discussion (22 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: We all have work to do, Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Migration to Europe: Discussion (22 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: Are you finished?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Migration to Europe: Discussion (22 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: We of all countries should be able to empathise with what is happening in the Mediterranean, seeing our people also suffered that fate in the middle of the 19th century. This has been left to the Italians and other Mediterranean states to deal with. This shows a severe lack of political leadership at EU level where bureaucracy reigns supreme while the interests of citizens are secondary....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Migration to Europe: Discussion (22 Apr 2015)

Jim Walsh: I ask that the committee convey to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade a request that the Minister pursue at European Union level some form of immediate support for an effective sea and rescue effort in the Mediterranean.