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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (25 Nov 2015)
Peter Mathews: Where have I heard that before? I am the nomadic Member of this Oireachtas, because I was taken off all the committees of which I was a formal member and I am always last but not least. I thank the committee for having me here and I thank the Minister for his contribution. I have learned a lot from listening to it. For my own part, and on behalf of my constituents, I thank him for the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (25 Nov 2015)
Peter Mathews: This is a question. The Minister knows, because I told him privately. Camp Liberty, which is underwritten for the safety of its occupants, outside Baghdad near the airport, was attacked by a bombardment of over 80 missiles for ten minutes, with 23 dead and more than 20 wounded. That was in spite of the written UN and US guarantee that the safety of the people in Camp Liberty would be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (25 Nov 2015)
Peter Mathews: I copied it to Kevin O'Malley, the US ambassador to Ireland. I have it here-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (25 Nov 2015)
Peter Mathews: I have. Why did the Taoiseach, two thirds of the way through his statement on Paris, say that we have to consider the underlying causes? Having said that, the speech went nowhere, because the underlying causes are that regimes such as the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (25 Nov 2015)
Peter Mathews: Yes, please. I have been expelled from the Dáil this morning, I am only two minutes into my contribution, and you are already cutting me off.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (25 Nov 2015)
Peter Mathews: A question has to have a setting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (25 Nov 2015)
Peter Mathews: Yes. The question is why our Government is doing nothing, not even reporting that slaughter on 29 October, in the circumstances I have just described. Second, why did the US ambassador to Ireland not respond in any shape or form to that letter on my headed paper, which warned them of the impending attack that killed 23 people and injured more than 20? The British Parliamentary Committee...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (25 Nov 2015)
Peter Mathews: Okay. The Minister is aware of Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, NCRI. In 2006, she presented to the Council of Europe a ten-point plan for the future of Iran, which is based on the principles of human rights; democracy - one person, one ballot; gender equality; and all the principles that would make the framework for any decent and civil...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (25 Nov 2015)
Peter Mathews: Why do we allow it go unreported that there have been almost 1,000 executions this year alone and the year is not even out? Why do we not discuss it? People like Geoffrey Robertson, one of the leading human rights lawyers in the world at the moment, support the examination of these grave injustices. We are prepared to go through the motions of the choreography of parliamentary nonsense -...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (25 Nov 2015)
Peter Mathews: I am trying to describe here that there are certain things that are important, such as human dignity-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (25 Nov 2015)
Peter Mathews: As regards legality, I have heard the words "legality" and "law" spoken everywhere today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (25 Nov 2015)
Peter Mathews: Slavery was legal.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (25 Nov 2015)
Peter Mathews: We have to examine what the underlying principles and behaviours are-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (25 Nov 2015)
Peter Mathews: One last thing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (25 Nov 2015)
Peter Mathews: A psychiatrist would say that if a person keeps getting the same results and if they keep doing what they are doing, they will get more of what they have got. One must do something different and radical-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (25 Nov 2015)
Peter Mathews: -----something with civility, compassion, understanding, with the things we do in our families.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (25 Nov 2015)
Peter Mathews: It is not being done at the leadership levels and we are accommodating regimes that are brutal------
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (25 Nov 2015)
Peter Mathews: -----and tyrannical.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Peter Mathews: There are a lot of heads.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Peter Mathews: We need them.