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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)
James Lawless: I thank Ms Hurley.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)
James Lawless: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)
James Lawless: I will ask the Senators to bear with me. We will go into private session after the witnesses withdraw. Those members who are remaining can have a discussion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)
James Lawless: Does the Senator need to vote in the Seanad?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)
James Lawless: Does the Senator wish to go and return? We can reconvene in 15 minutes if he wants.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)
James Lawless: We will have that discussion about where we go next, and it is important that we do so, but that is a matter for us to consider as a committee rather than with the witnesses present. In any event, as it happens-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)
James Lawless: That is their problem, not Senator McDowell’s.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)
James Lawless: Decisions are made by those who show up. That has always been the way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)
James Lawless: That is not to cast an aspersion on anyone who is not present, but it is the reality that we cannot convene repeatedly just to try to get maximum attendance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)
James Lawless: I know the Senator is not suggesting that, but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)
James Lawless: Exactly. It is for the members to decide.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)
James Lawless: Of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)
James Lawless: No. Senator Keogan is welcome to attend our meetings, put questions to witnesses and engage, but she is not welcome to engage in the business of the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)
James Lawless: I am sure the Senator is on other committees and she enjoys full freedom there, but she is not a member of this committee. I am not sure how that works in terms of what committees she opted into or out of.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)
James Lawless: Maybe there are checks on the way in. I do not know.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)
James Lawless: In any event, this committee will make a decision later on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)
James Lawless: The committee will have a discussion. As all members who offered have now spoken, there is a vote in the Seanad that the Senators need to attend.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)
James Lawless: No, let us do that in private session.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)
James Lawless: The Senator can make a point regardless of the letter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)
James Lawless: The Senator can do it anyway. We are not going to be-----