Results 7,061-7,080 of 9,147 for speaker:Pat Breen

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (23 Jun 2015)

Pat Breen: 163. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on a disability allowance will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24665/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (23 Jun 2015)

Pat Breen: 182. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on an appeal under the disability allowance scheme will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24908/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (23 Jun 2015)

Pat Breen: 183. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision regarding a disability allowance will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24909/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)

Pat Breen: Apologies have been received from Deputy Olivia Mitchell, Deputy Seán Crowe, Deputy Dan Neville and Senator David Norris. Draft minutes of the meeting of 17 June 2015 have been circulated to members. Are the minutes of that meeting agreed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)

Pat Breen: I do not want to have a discussion because we have it on correspondence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)

Pat Breen: I do not want to have an in-depth discussion on it. We have a correspondence and it can go in there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)

Pat Breen: We are speaking about the minutes now. We are not having a discussion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)

Pat Breen: Yes. No, well-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)

Pat Breen: There are two issues there, Senator Daly. I do not want to have an in-depth discussion at this stage because it is in the correspondence. On the Halawa case, as Senator Daly knows, we have had no updates since last week. We have been on to the Department and we have met the Egyptian ambassador about this request which was put forward by this committee. We have had no correspondence since...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)

Pat Breen: On the question of Relatives for Justice, I understand that the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement is meeting tomorrow and will discuss it then. It is the main committee for this. We hope to have something back tomorrow. As requested, this committee has expressed an interest in this so we will discuss it with the members of that committee tomorrow after they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)

Pat Breen: Strictly speaking-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)

Pat Breen: I will let you speak.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)

Pat Breen: No one doubts the Senator's sentiments, but we had agreed that we would let the members of the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement discuss this first and we would talk to them about it. They are meeting tomorrow. The two clerks will meet and we will discuss it then. Does Deputy Byrne have something to add?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)

Pat Breen: I thought Deputy Byrne said he had something to add.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)

Pat Breen: We will put it on the correspondence next week so that it is on the correspondence because we will have a reply updated on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)

Pat Breen: That is no problem. We need to be careful because there are two committees and we do not want to overlap or to go down the same road as they are going down on the same issue. That is all I am saying to Senator Walsh. We will have written correspondence from the clerk tomorrow.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)

Pat Breen: I do not want to go into this subject now. We are discussing-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)

Pat Breen: We are not discussing that subject today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)

Pat Breen: The Senator has said that before.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)

Pat Breen: We are not having a discussion on it now. We are discussing the minutes.