Results 7,561-7,580 of 9,147 for speaker:Pat Breen
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: I do not mind. If Senator Daly wants to hold off, that is fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: Okay, that is fine. I have no problem, one way or the other. I only thought Senator Daly wanted to deal with it early in the meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: Okay, that is fine. We will deal with it after the presentation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: It is "the legal team" motion. It was on last week and Senator Daly was not present, and I decided I would put it off until this week when Senator Daly would be here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: The motion is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: The motion states:That the committee ask the legal team for Ibrahim Halawa to come before the committee and give an update on his case. That is the motion that was submitted from Senator Daly. I propose we deal with it now. Senator Daly says it was in the agenda at this early stage, even though everybody is here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: Does Senator Daly want to leave it or have it now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: I would prefer to have it now because we would get our meeting over. The witnesses are not expected in for approximately ten minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: Does Senator Daly wish to leave it until later?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: Excuse me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: Senator Daly says it is down for later. We will deal with it afterwards, if he wants to propose to do so. I was only facilitating him by having it now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: We are in public session. We will get the witnesses and start the presentation, and then we will deal with Senator Daly's motion afterwards. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: While we are waiting on the witnesses to come in we will deal with the motion on the Ibrahim Halawa case. Would Senator Daly like to comment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: The Government has already formally supported Mr. Halawa's release under Law 140, which is the presidential decree. That was done last February. The Government has also formally supported the application for Ibrahim Halawa's release on bail. I will meet with the legal team as soon as that can be arranged.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: I do not propose to hold a formal meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: I want to say-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: As long as I am chairing this committee it will not be a courtroom. The Department officials have already outlined to KRW following receipt of its opinion, that the Government believes that the wording of Law 140 is such that it cannot be allowed in Ibrahim Halawa's case until the trial proceedings have concluded. Based on extensive representations of Ibrahim Halawa's case at the highest...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: Senator Daly, please allow me to speak. The committee will meet with the legal team, as it has done previously. They were also invited to attend when Dr. Christopher Ward appeared before the committee but, unfortunately, as they were delayed in traffic they did not make it to that meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: We will meet informally with the legal team. I do not understand the reason the Senator is going to push this to a vote. I think he is making the wrong decision on this matter and I urge him to rethink it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: No. His trial had concluded.