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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Pat Breen: That is my point. I am not happy with it and I seek a more comprehensive reply. Senator Daly has already answered the question for me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Pat Breen: The Senator has answered the question for me. The committee wants to hold the Department to account and we therefore need more information on the reason successive Governments have not dealt with the issue. That is all I seek. I am not taking sides.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Pat Breen: I am asking the Senator to postpone the matter for one week until we get a comprehensive reply and then we will deal with it on Monday week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Pat Breen: As Chairman, I have not received a comprehensive reply from the Department. All I have is the information I received from Senator Daly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Pat Breen: I will put the question on the motion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Pat Breen: We cannot discuss it for six months. That is the reason I asked that discussion on the motion would be postponed for a week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Pat Breen: I will not have any more discussion on the matter. I have asked the proposer of the motion to postpone the debate for one week. That is not too much of a delay and it would allow time for a more comprehensive response to come from the Department. I am not happy with the Department's reply. Senator Daly should please listen to me. As Chairman, I have not received a comprehensive briefing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Pat Breen: Now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Pat Breen: Members can make their arguments now but they should please stop interrupting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Pat Breen: Is the motion agreed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Pat Breen: We need to get a briefing. If members feel a different type of motion is required, we can get somebody to submit it next week. We all have the same concern over what happened.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Pat Breen: We will move on to the next item.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Pat Breen: We have dealt with the motion. We are still going to get a more comprehensive reply for the members. It is up to any individual member to submit a motion in a different context.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Pat Breen: It was important to seek a more comprehensive reply on this because the members and I were not happy about it. That is why I asked Senator Daly to postpone the motion for just one week. There was no other reason for or against it. I had no choice but to go with the motion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Pat Breen: We are moving on to the next item.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Pat Breen: We are moving on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Pat Breen: Members should speak through the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts: Motion (22 Apr 2015)

Pat Breen: This is a very serious issue. I ask that members not make a political football out of it. That is what will happen if we keep going down this road.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Migration to Europe: Discussion (22 Apr 2015)

Pat Breen: In view of what happened over the weekend in the Mediterranean, I decided on Monday that this issue should be put on the agenda as a matter of urgency. We have seen so many people die trying to make a better life for themselves in Europe as a result of conflict in their countries of origin. We have seen an incredible smuggling industry develop out of the conflicts in many of the African...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Migration to Europe: Discussion (22 Apr 2015)

Pat Breen: The Deputy has come up with a good idea. Perhaps we could write to the Latvian Presidency proposing the convening of a meeting of foreign affairs committees. We might also invite Mr. Peter Sutherland, the UN special representative for migration, to the committee, he being an Irishman.