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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Case of Mr. Sergei Magnitsky: Discussion (27 Feb 2013)
Pat Breen: I thank Mr. Browder for his very powerful remarks and contribution in respect of the Magnitsky case and the circumstances surrounding it. It is very disturbing to hear these circumstances. I will now ask members to ask questions but because many members are present today, including Members representing the Council of Europe and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, OSCE,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Case of Mr. Sergei Magnitsky: Discussion (27 Feb 2013)
Pat Breen: I must ask Mr. Browder not to name individuals.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Case of Mr. Sergei Magnitsky: Discussion (27 Feb 2013)
Pat Breen: I will bring in Deputy Eric Byrne as well. There are six more members who wish to contribute.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Case of Mr. Sergei Magnitsky: Discussion (27 Feb 2013)
Pat Breen: That is fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Case of Mr. Sergei Magnitsky: Discussion (27 Feb 2013)
Pat Breen: May we have a question, if the Deputy does not mind?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Case of Mr. Sergei Magnitsky: Discussion (27 Feb 2013)
Pat Breen: Mr. Browder can take those two questions now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Case of Mr. Sergei Magnitsky: Discussion (27 Feb 2013)
Pat Breen: I call Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan, followed by Senator Clune.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Case of Mr. Sergei Magnitsky: Discussion (27 Feb 2013)
Pat Breen: There were three questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Case of Mr. Sergei Magnitsky: Discussion (27 Feb 2013)
Pat Breen: The next members to contribute will be Deputies Joe O'Reilly, Ann Phelan and John Paul Phelan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Case of Mr. Sergei Magnitsky: Discussion (27 Feb 2013)
Pat Breen: I thank Mr. Browder There have been suggestions by him and some committee members that the committee draft a resolution. Do members have suggestions on this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Case of Mr. Sergei Magnitsky: Discussion (27 Feb 2013)
Pat Breen: We normally require four days' notice for members to table motions. If any member wants to produce a motion on this case, we can put it on the agenda for next week's meeting. It is up to the individual member to raise the motion and see if the committee is happy with such a motion. I do not want to agree on anything today because some members are absent and it would not be fair from that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Case of Mr. Sergei Magnitsky: Discussion (27 Feb 2013)
Pat Breen: If there is a motion agreeable to all the members, we can get some member to move that motion next week and we can have it on the agenda. Is that agreed? Agreed. On behalf of the committee I thank Mr. Browder sincerely for his contribution this afternoon. The case clearly raises very disturbing questions and we will certainly need to monitor it. We would appreciate it if Mr. Browder...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals (6 Mar 2013)
Pat Breen: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 244 of 27 February 2013, the position regarding an application for disadvantaged area scheme payment appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11941/13]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (6 Mar 2013)
Pat Breen: I apologise for Deputy O'Sullivan who, unfortunately, is unable to attend the meeting. No. 1 is minutes of the previous meeting on 27 February, which have been circulated. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. Unless there are matters arising from the minutes, we will proceed with the main business of the meeting. I remind members and people in the Public Gallery to ensure their mobile phones...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Case of Mr. Sergei Magnitsky: Motion (6 Mar 2013)
Pat Breen: The main item before the committee is a motion regarding the case of Sergei Magnitsky. Members will recall that at last week's meeting the committee heard a presentation by Mr. William Browder who is raising awareness of the case of Mr. Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer who worked for Mr. Browder and who died in police custody in Russia in 2009. Although he is now dead, Mr. Magnitsky is now being...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Case of Mr. Sergei Magnitsky: Motion (6 Mar 2013)
Pat Breen: The Deputy is moving into a different area now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Case of Mr. Sergei Magnitsky: Motion (6 Mar 2013)
Pat Breen: The Deputy should keep it brief. We are not going down that road.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Case of Mr. Sergei Magnitsky: Motion (6 Mar 2013)
Pat Breen: We are talking about human rights now, not the economy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Case of Mr. Sergei Magnitsky: Motion (6 Mar 2013)
Pat Breen: With all due respect-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: The Case of Mr. Sergei Magnitsky: Motion (6 Mar 2013)
Pat Breen: The Deputy should stick to the subject matter.