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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Review of Foreign Affairs Policy and External Relations: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)
Pat Breen: I am not doubting that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Review of Foreign Affairs Policy and External Relations: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)
Pat Breen: The Senator is out of order. Please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Review of Foreign Affairs Policy and External Relations: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)
Pat Breen: I have ruled the Senator is out of order.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Review of Foreign Affairs Policy and External Relations: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)
Pat Breen: I believe the Senator is out of order in this regard. I have asked him to stick with a point regarding the foreign policy review and not to go into specific details.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Review of Foreign Affairs Policy and External Relations: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)
Pat Breen: I am not talking about your view but you are going into specific cases. I will not allow the Tánaiste to comment on these, as the joint committee is dealing with a review of foreign policy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Review of Foreign Affairs Policy and External Relations: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)
Pat Breen: Not in the context of your dealing with specific instances.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Review of Foreign Affairs Policy and External Relations: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)
Pat Breen: I am sorry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Review of Foreign Affairs Policy and External Relations: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)
Pat Breen: The Senator should conclude because he is out of order.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Review of Foreign Affairs Policy and External Relations: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)
Pat Breen: Okay. We are moving on to Deputy Eric Byrne.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Review of Foreign Affairs Policy and External Relations: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)
Pat Breen: Senator Norris, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Review of Foreign Affairs Policy and External Relations: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)
Pat Breen: Senator, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Review of Foreign Affairs Policy and External Relations: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)
Pat Breen: Sorry, no point of order.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Review of Foreign Affairs Policy and External Relations: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)
Pat Breen: Senator Norris, please. I call Senator Mullins.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Review of Foreign Affairs Policy and External Relations: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)
Pat Breen: Senator Mullins, please, without interruption.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Review of Foreign Affairs Policy and External Relations: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)
Pat Breen: I thank the members for their questions. Some of the suggestions had nothing to do with the foreign policy area and I do not expect the Tánaiste to answer any of those questions. The Tánaiste stated at the beginning of his remarks that he did not want to go into these in detail but if he wants to make a few closing remarks on some of the issues, he can do so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Review of Foreign Affairs Policy and External Relations: Discussion (4 Dec 2013)
Pat Breen: I thank the Tánaiste for briefing us on the review. The meeting will now continue in private session and remain so until adjourned. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Issues (5 Dec 2013)
Pat Breen: These schemes are extremely important for all local authorities. It is now the time of the year that local authorities prepare budgets for the following year, although Ennis Town Council has postponed its budget meeting until the new year. In the context of these schemes and the budget allocations, when will the Department give the allocations to town councils for 2014, given the...
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2013)
Pat Breen: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate and I am delighted to see the Minister in the Chamber. A sizeable sum, €19.6 billion, will be spent in the Department of Social Protection next year. It is a lot of money, and 2.259 million people benefited from payments from the Department last year. It is a Department with a huge budget and most people interact with the...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (10 Dec 2013)
Pat Breen: 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 283 of 5 November 2013, the position regarding an application for a special needs assistant in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52816/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (10 Dec 2013)
Pat Breen: 262. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an invalidity pension appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52741/13]