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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Foreign Affairs and Trade Issues: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (11 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: Would the Irish ambassador and the Colombian ambassador in London be made aware of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Foreign Affairs and Trade Issues: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (11 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: The Minister would not be intervening; he would be offering.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Foreign Affairs and Trade Issues: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (11 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: After all, they are accepting assistance from former terrorists in Northern Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Foreign Affairs and Trade Issues: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (11 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: How will we deal with the vote in the Dáil?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Foreign Affairs and Trade Issues: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (11 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: We could afford the Minister time to consult with his officials.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Foreign Affairs and Trade Issues: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (11 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: It could be a tea break.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Foreign Affairs and Trade Issues: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (11 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: It is my last question. When the Minister refers to Palestine, what borders is he talking about recognising? Are they the 1967 borders?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Foreign Affairs and Trade Issues: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (11 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: He is the Minister for Foreign Affairs for all issues, not just European ones. With all due respect he is a Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Foreign Affairs and Trade Issues: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (11 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: He is the senior Minister in the Department of Foreign Affairs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Foreign Affairs and Trade Issues: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (11 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: He does not mind going off script every so often to deal with other thorny issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Foreign Affairs and Trade Issues: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (11 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: I welcome the Minister and hope he will go off script when I ask him some questions that have not been covered by him to date. I concur with the Minister, and I think the Chairman would concur also, that the embassy staff in Sierra Leone, mainly under the leadership of women, is spectacular. I join the Minister in praising the phenomenal work by that delegation. We knew about the really...

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: Is that the women in Northern Ireland?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Illness Benefit Reform (6 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: 41. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her Department's views on illness benefit and proposed changes (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42548/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Support Services (6 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: 136. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide in tabular form the funding that has been provided to the Family Support Agency for the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42547/14]

Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: Does Deputy Higgins imagine that Deputy Gerry Adams cannot pay? He is the wealthiest TD in the place.

Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: Which abuse?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Report on Response to 2014 Country Specific Recommendations for Ireland: Better Europe Alliance (4 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: I wish to apologise to the Chairman, committee and delegation for my absence earlier but I had to attend a lunch with eight European ambassadors who quizzed me as though I was Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Report on Response to 2014 Country Specific Recommendations for Ireland: Better Europe Alliance (4 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: It is just as well I knew as much as I did.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Nigeria: Ambassador of Nigeria to Ireland (4 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: I hope ESBI becomes involved. It is involved in such partnerships in Tanzania and elsewhere and has an excellent record. I hope the Vice Chairman will excuse me but I am obliged to leave for a meeting with six other ambassadors.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Nigeria: Ambassador of Nigeria to Ireland (4 Nov 2014)

Eric Byrne: I welcome the ambassador. I hope she has a pleasant experience in Ireland. She will have plenty of her fellow nationals to engage with given that about 40,000 Nigerians live in Ireland, an issue to which I will return. I congratulate her on her appointment. Having read her profile, I recognise she is no mean person to deal with. As she has been a parliamentarian, she will know a lot...