Results 2,901-2,920 of 9,147 for speaker:Pat Breen
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Relations Between Ireland and Great Britain: Ambassador of Ireland to Great Britain (2 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: Come on, Senator. The mood and relationship between the UK and Ireland have changed. The Senator is straying into matters which are part of the remit of another committee, to be honest about it. Be fair about it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Relations Between Ireland and Great Britain: Ambassador of Ireland to Great Britain (2 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: I ask the Senator to finish on this point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Relations Between Ireland and Great Britain: Ambassador of Ireland to Great Britain (2 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: I ask Senator Daly to finish please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Relations Between Ireland and Great Britain: Ambassador of Ireland to Great Britain (2 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: Some of the questions asked by Senator Daly can be asked in the Dáil, through parliamentary questions or through the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. It is not the function of the ambassador to discuss the issue before this committee. We have moved on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Relations Between Ireland and Great Britain: Ambassador of Ireland to Great Britain (2 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: The Senator has asked his questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Relations Between Ireland and Great Britain: Ambassador of Ireland to Great Britain (2 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: Some of the questions are outside the remit of the ambassador. He is a capable man and is well able to decide whether he should answer them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Relations Between Ireland and Great Britain: Ambassador of Ireland to Great Britain (2 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: All I am saying is that those questions are outside our remit. We have discussed this before-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Relations Between Ireland and Great Britain: Ambassador of Ireland to Great Britain (2 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: I wish to return to trade. Britain is the fifth largest exporting market-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Relations Between Ireland and Great Britain: Ambassador of Ireland to Great Britain (2 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: He will be. I am asking more questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Relations Between Ireland and Great Britain: Ambassador of Ireland to Great Britain (2 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: Please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Relations Between Ireland and Great Britain: Ambassador of Ireland to Great Britain (2 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: Take the ruling of the Chair, please, if you do not mind. I grouped the questions when you were not here and I want to remind you of this. I want to return to the issue of trade. Britain is our fifth largest exporting market and the UK is the third largest investor in Ireland, which is extremely important. We have a very open economy and export 80% of what we produce. Foreign direct...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Relations Between Ireland and Great Britain: Ambassador of Ireland to Great Britain (2 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: Senator Daly is straying outside the ambassador's remit on policy. He cannot answer some of these questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Relations Between Ireland and Great Britain: Ambassador of Ireland to Great Britain (2 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: To be fair, we need answers and some of those questions relate to Government policy rather than the role of the ambassador. This is within the remit of the Joint Committee on the Implantation of the Good Friday Agreement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Relations Between Ireland and Great Britain: Ambassador of Ireland to Great Britain (2 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: The Senator's colleagues in the Oireachtas could table a parliamentary question on those issues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Relations Between Ireland and Great Britain: Ambassador of Ireland to Great Britain (2 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: I am not sure that Ambassador Mulhall will agree with the Deputy on some of those questions. I am aware that Deputy O'Sullivan must rush to the Chamber so I will allow her in now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Relations Between Ireland and Great Britain: Ambassador of Ireland to Great Britain (2 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: Perhaps one of those question would be outside our remit, but that is up to the ambassador to decide on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Relations Between Ireland and Great Britain: Ambassador of Ireland to Great Britain (2 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: We understand that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Relations Between Ireland and Great Britain: Ambassador of Ireland to Great Britain (2 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: I will bring in Deputy Eric Byrne because he has to slip out to attend a meeting of the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs. Unfortunately that meeting is on next door. I know the Deputy will come back again but he wanted to get in before leaving.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Relations Between Ireland and Great Britain: Ambassador of Ireland to Great Britain (2 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: Thank you, Ambassador Mulhall. My question relates to the current and future relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union. I realise the ambassador cannot give a personal opinion on this issue, but will he comment on developments in regard to the in-out debate and the proposed referendum, and the importance from our perspective, particularly in the context of trade, that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Relations Between Ireland and Great Britain: Ambassador of Ireland to Great Britain (2 Jul 2014)
Pat Breen: Thank you, Ambassador Mulhall. I will now take questions from members, beginning with Deputy Brendan Smith.