Results 881-900 of 5,046 for speaker:Paschal Mooney
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Paschal Mooney: ââwas one of the strongest supporters. With all due respect I would never interrupt the Senator in anything he has to say.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Paschal Mooney: I would be grateful if the Senator did not interrupt in this instance because this issue is highly charged, evidence of which we witnessed earlier. It is a serious issue.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Paschal Mooney: I wish to repeat what I said earlier that all of us share the concern here. In my opinion this is not about concern. I believe there is a partisan motive behind all of thisââ
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Paschal Mooney: ââthat it is in order to somehow rub the Government's nose in it.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Paschal Mooney: I am prepared to accept the word of the elected Minister for Foreign Affairs of this country. He asked a direct question of the Secretary of State of the United States, a friendly country, and was given the answer that nothing illegal was carried out on the sovereign territory of the Republic of Ireland. I accept that simply because that is the way international relations operate between...
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Paschal Mooney: The argument is that if they did not tell us about the US marine, they did not tell us about anything else. My confidence in the American assurances was shaken by that incident.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Paschal Mooney: There is no question that the Americans were wrong on that occasion, and the Irish Government took the appropriate steps. The US Ambassador was summoned by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and he was told that it was unacceptable behaviour. I believe the Americans understood our position with regard to that incident.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Paschal Mooney: It is unfair to single out the Minister for Foreign Affairs in this motion and to state that he has been hiding evidence or hiding the truth. I have the greatest respect for Proinsias De Rossa, who is the president of the Labour Party and a former distinguished Minister.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Paschal Mooney: Forgive me. He is a former president of the party. He also has a distinguished record in Europe. However, I understand he was the only member of that committee to put forward a proposal that Ireland be singled out with regard to this issue. That is wrong.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Paschal Mooney: In the same context, the fact that the Minister for Foreign Affairs called for a review of the relevant civil aviation legislation, the Chicago Convention, was ignored. The reason he sought this was not just because of the developments in civil aviation since the conclusion of the convention in 1944 but because the convention currently only applies to military, police and customs aircraft...
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Paschal Mooney: Perhaps I could have a few extra seconds while the substitute is changing. Any rational examination of the manner in which international affairs are carried out at diplomatic level will show that Ministers use Government jets and official carriers. Business at international level is now conducted by aeroplane. There is no suggestion that the 147 CIA owned flights were associated with...
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Paschal Mooney: That is the stated fact.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Paschal Mooney: Not all these flights.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Paschal Mooney: It is incorrect and mischievous to bundle all 147 flights together and claim that they were operating in an illegal fashion on this country's territory. It is damaging to this country's interests to suggest it.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Paschal Mooney: Good.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Paschal Mooney: It did.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Paschal Mooney: That is a distorted view.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Paschal Mooney: We wanted to join the Socialists but we were not allowed.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Paschal Mooney: The Senator is a great one.
- Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (31 Jan 2007)
Paschal Mooney: The Senator can throw it out himself.