Results 7,601-7,620 of 9,147 for speaker:Pat Breen
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: That is the retrial, we are talking about the first trial.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: No, it is not. The Senator is misrepresenting the whole position.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: We are not going to agree on this today. All I can tell the Senator is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: He is not, because he has not had a trial yet, unfortunately.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: Let me be clear. We have adopted the very same approach as the Australians did.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: It is up to the Egyptians. We cannot interfere in their law.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: We are. I have agreed to meet the legal team informally. We can get the same information informally as we can formally. I do not know why the Senator wants this in the public domain.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: The Senator is very wrong about the Department. This case has been high on its agenda.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: That has nothing to do with the case. That comment undermines our team out there and is an unfair comment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: It is an unfair comment to make about our diplomatic team.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: I have been out in Cairo and I have seen how hard-working the two people are. In fact, they are doing little else apart from working on this case. The Senator's comment is very unfair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: We are not going to agree, so I am going to call the vote on this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: I do not know. That is up to Senator Daly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: There are no discrepancies. The Senator is playing politics here. I must move on because it seems there will be no agreement on this. Is the Senator pressing the motion? I will allow Deputy Boyd Barrett make a brief comment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: No, it might do the exact opposite.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: Our Prime Minister, the Ministers for Foreign Affairs and Trade and Justice and Equality and the Department have put that pressure on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: It is all about interpretation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: Through the Chair. I was not at the meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: I have rarely banged the hammer previously but I am doing it now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Pat Breen: The Senator obviously does not believe anything the Government or I tell him. He has his own agenda on this.