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- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Nuclear Proliferation (8 Feb 2022)
John Brady: 389. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland will be sending representatives to observe at the first meeting of states parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons which is scheduled to take place between 19 and 21 July 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6734/22]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Education in Developing Countries: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)
John Brady: I welcome everyone this afternoon. Our guests are in far flung places across the world. One of the major benefits, if anything has come from the Covid world, is how the ability to meet online has made the world a bit smaller. Another challenge that Covid threw up was in education. In Ireland when the schools had to close, I, as a parent, saw the challenges, particularly as my wife tried...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
John Brady: I have a series of questions for the Minister and then for the Secretary General. Who informed the Minister of the tweet with the photo of the then Secretary General, Mr. Burgess, and the other staff members? Perhaps the Minister could answer the questions as we go along.
- 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 wish to name that person?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
John Brady: Was it an adviser?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs (8 Feb 2022)
John Brady: Why does the Minister think the individual in question felt compelled to raise the issue with him?
- 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 adviser saw it as a serious breach of Covid restrictions and raised it.
- 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 see the tweet before it was deleted?
- 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 saw what could have been the tweet while it was still live on Twitter.
- 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 the Secretary General to take the tweet down?
- 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-----