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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
John Brady: Did the Minister instruct someone to instruct the Secretary General to take it down?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
John Brady: You did not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
John Brady: Did the Minister's adviser instruct the Secretary General to take it down?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
John Brady: Does the Minister know who instructed him to take it down?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
John Brady: The Minister said in his opening statement that he accepts he should have formally raised the matter with the then Secretary General, Mr. Niall Burgess. When did the Minister speak to Mr. Burgess about this incident or did he speak to him in any capacity?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
John Brady: He did not speak to him at all.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
John Brady: The Minister's political adviser notified him that they had serious concerns-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
John Brady: The Minister did not feel the need to raise it in any capacity with the Secretary General. I find that bizarre.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
John Brady: Clearly, the Minister was wrong in that assessment. Has he deleted any texts or other communications in relation to this incident?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
John Brady: Okay. I welcome the swift appointment of an external review of the alleged party and alleged Covid restriction breaches in McKee Barracks in June 2020, which the Minister initiated, but it seems to be double standards-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
John Brady: It seems there are double standards in the Minister's perception of accountability and transparency. Does the Minister believe that the deputy Chief Whip of his party-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
John Brady: I made no allegations. I said "alleged".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
John Brady: I am entitled to ask legitimate questions and these are very legitimate questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
John Brady: They may be a little bit uncomfortable for some but they are legitimate questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
John Brady: I am making a comparison between the perception of-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
John Brady: -----the Minister's accountability and transparency in terms of what he initiated in one case and the process he initiated in this case - an internal review of serious Covid breaches.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
John Brady: If I could just finish the question without any attempt to censor, does the Minister believe-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
John Brady: I am doing that, Chair, despite attempts to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
John Brady: I am sticking strongly to it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
John Brady: Does the Minister believe that the deputy Chief Whip of his party, Deputy Brendan Griffin, and the Minister for State, Deputy Anne Rabbitte, were wrong when they stated they believed there should be a full independent inquiry into the events in question?