Results 5,881-5,900 of 9,147 for speaker:Pat Breen
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: I know the Senator has a special interest in that area so we might wait for the response from the Department. We will then take it in correspondence and the Senator can raise it at that stage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: We will have a look at it but the problem is that as Chair, if I must go to a vote, I have no choice but to suspend the meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: It is something we might raise at the meeting with the other chairpersons. The Senator might put it in writing and I will raise it at the general chairs meeting. I will come back to him with a response after next week.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: Is it about the minutes?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: Is the Deputy talking about internal committees or Oireachtas committees?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: Our committees are set for a certain date every week so perhaps the Deputy should raise the fact that our committee meets every Wednesday at 2.30 p.m. at the internal committees. I know he is a member of a number of committees and that is where he has a real problem.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: I am very conscious of that but the problem with parliamentary party meetings is the fact that most of the time, we have meetings late on a Wednesday afternoon. I am sure we have the same problem with the meetings of the Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and Labour Party parliamentary parties and those of the Independents, not to forget our good friend Deputy O'Sullivan. The difficulty is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: I know that but our meeting is on Wednesday where the Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting is held at 5.30 p.m. so that means all the Fine Gael members can be absent at a critical time when the Tánaiste and other witnesses are appearing before us. That is the difficulty we have. We will bear that in mind and I will ask the clerk to the committee to bear that in mind with respect to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: The clerk will speak to the clerk to the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs. That should not happen normally because many members of this committee, particularly Opposition spokespersons, are members of both committees. Our slot is normally on a Wednesday afternoon and the other committee's slot is on Thursday. It was probably because there was some arrangement. We did not change...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: We are dealing with the minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: Does the Senator mind if we deal with that issue under correspondence?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: We have received the information from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. That is the only information we have received. It is more or less the same as the original information. Clearly sensitive issues are involved. I suggest that if the Senator is able to raise it in another forum as part of his remit, he should do so. As far as I am concerned, we have explored it as far as we can.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: We received the information which the Senator sought from the Department.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: It is under correspondence item No. 1352. That is the information we have.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: It is the same item we received previously.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: I cannot make an answer for the Senator.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: The Senator is assuming that something went wrong.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: According to the e-mail received from the Department on 22 January, the situation remains as outlined in the letter of 23 October 2013 and the remaining 50% balance of €130,000 for the emigrant support programme grant awarded to the IIIC was paid in December. If something specific was wrong, the Department would conduct its own internal investigation. We are assuming something we do...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: We are undermining the Department by suggesting it overlooked something.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Pat Breen: I will make contact with the Department personally to clarify the issue.