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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: We will allow the ambassador to comment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: Sorry, I said one question. I call Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: I ask Senator Walsh to ask a brief question because I want to move on to the issue of Syria.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: You will be given an opportunity.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: Deputy Eric Byrne will be next.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: We will move on to Syria because a number of members want to raise questions about this country. We will then allow other questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: The Deputy will have an opportunity but I wish to deal with Syria beforehand because it is a topical issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: We will also deal with these issues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: It is much easier because we can get through the issues arising more quickly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: I would like to include Syria because we are dealing with the Middle East.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: I ask the Deputy to be conscious that a vote has been called.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: We are not speaking about Deputy Mathews.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: I need to suspend the meeting to allow Deputies attend a vote in the Dáil. This will give the ambassador a few minutes to prepare his answers. I appeal to members to return immediately after the division for further questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: The ambassador may want to answer Deputy Eric Byrne's questions, and other members have questions on the conflicts in Syria and the Middle East, particularly the Israel-Palestine question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: That question relating to the wealth of the Ayatollah is not relevant to the debate so the ambassador does not need to answer it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: It is not really.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: We do not mention people's wealth unless it is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: How does the ambassador react to people who say that Iran is supplying missiles to Hamas? That view is out there. Would he ask Hamas to refrain from putting the rockets into Israel and for Israel to refrain from firing into Gaza?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: Let the ambassador answer the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Situation: Ambassador of Iran to Ireland (9 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: Did Iran support them with money to buy weapons?