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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: I thank Deputy Bernard Durkan. Members should confine their remarks to questions rather than statements. Everyone wants to contribute. If every member keeps his or her contribution short, we might be able to allow a second set of questions. I am not referring to Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan specifically.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: A vote has been called in the Dáil but I will call Deputy Ó Snodaigh. We will break then for the vote during which the Minister will have time to digest all the questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: I will suspend the meeting and we will return immediately after the vote when I will ask the Minister to respond to the questions asked. Following that I will call the other members.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: We will resume in public session. I remind members that we have to vacate the committee room by 12.45 p.m. as it has been booked for that time. That means we have one and a quarter hours for this discussion. I ask members to be brief in their questioning.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: We will not deal with that now-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: -----as I want to get down to today's business, but the Senator can raise that matter again if he wishes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: We have raised it at several meetings, but I do not want to go into that matter now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: I thank the Senator for voicing his concern on that. I will hand over to the Minister first, as we have two or three other speakers. I remind everybody again that we must vacate the committee room by 12.45 p.m.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: I should have reminded everyone at the start of the meeting to ensure their mobile phones were turned off. I ask the Minister to proceed without interruption.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: Members should speak through the Chair, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: I am conscious that another vote has been called.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: Has the Minister finished responding to most of the questions from members?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: I will suspend the meeting. When we recommence I will bring in the other members immediately and then the Minister can make a final response to the questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: Yes, that is fine. When we return I will call Deputy Olivia Mitchell and Senators Mark Daly, David Norris and Michael Mullins. Then I will call on the Minister to respond.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: Yes. I will suspend the meeting until after the vote.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: The Taoiseach did not mislead the Dáil in that regard. I ask the Senator to withdraw that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: No, he did not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: The Senator is going to his own sources, but was he listening to the Minister today?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: That is Senator Daly's opinion. That is not misleading the Dáil. The Senator should be very careful about what he says here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (8 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: There is no use saying sorry to me. I ask the Senator to observe the rules here.