Results 2,061-2,080 of 9,147 for speaker:Pat Breen
- 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.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: We are putting our citizens first.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: We have to examine the remit of that committee and what it discusses. If that happens it happens but if it is not anxious that we get into the issue and it wants to discuss it the Senator can attend a meeting of that committee. I will not rule anything out until we see what happens at its meeting tomorrow.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: We will discuss it under correspondence again next week.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: That is up to the Senator if he wants to put it down as an item next week.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: There will be correspondence from that committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: That is all I am asking Senator Walsh to do, wait and see what happens at that committee’s meeting tomorrow. We do not want to be at loggerheads with that committee on this issue. I have no problem putting it down for discussion next week but I ask the Senator to wait and see what happens tomorrow. That is what we had agreed and it is not meeting until tomorrow.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: There is no problem putting it on the agenda but out of courtesy we need to talk to our friends on the other committee, study its remit and see what it is doing. We get requests all the time from people who want to meet us but as Deputy Durkan said, they might not be matters for our committee, for example the Transatlantic Trade Investment Partnership, TTIP, which is a matter for the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: If the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement wants to debate this jointly we will see about that and I will respond to the Senator next week. We will put it on the agenda. There is no problem with that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: It all has to do with Northern Ireland. It is not a matter of bilateral relations between Ireland and Britain.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: We need to be careful about that. We will discuss it next week after the other committee has met tomorrow.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: Yes, it will be on the agenda.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: It is going to be on the agenda next week. We will discuss it then. It is an important subject and nobody is dismissing it but we need the appropriate forum to deal with it and see what is the remit of each committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: I am leaving the matter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: It is on the agenda for next week.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: We will deal with it next week. Is that agreed? Agreed. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. Unless there are other matters arising we will proceed with the main business of the meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade between Ireland and ASEAN Countries (Resumed): Asia Matters (24 Jun 2015)
Pat Breen: We welcome Mr. Martin Murray, executive director, and Ms Stephanie FitzGerald-Smith, director of marketing and communications from Asia Matters, to discuss Ireland's trade with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN, countries. We have already held meetings with other stakeholders in connection with the report we are putting together on trade with the ASEAN region and the...