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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: Senator Higgins will have to wait.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: Senator Higgins's time is up. We will have a second round shortly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: No, you cannot.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: Senator Higgins cannot ask now but she will have an opportunity to come back on it. I need to be fair to everyone. With the greatest respect to Senator Higgins, and I am fierce fond of her, I am afraid of setting precedent in the committee. We stick to our time limits. I will give Mr. Whyte time to answer the questions. I have some questions to ask in my own time. Will Mr. Whyte...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: Am I correct in saying that UNRWA personnel are not allowed to rotate in or out?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: Is it all local staff now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: Are they rotated?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: Does Mr. Whyte see any chink whereby the international community could capitalise on this in Israeli public opinion? Is there anything the West could do? Clearly, the Israeli Government is not for turning. There is no point in wasting energy there, but what about Israeli public opinion?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: Do you see any evidence of forward planning in respect of the most well-known or infamous articulation of that economic development of Gaza?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: If Israel gets its way, how will this end?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: What about the fabulously wealthy neighbours, namely the Arab states in the region?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: Why is that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: We will go to a second round. I call Deputy Brennan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: Mr. Whyte, you mentioned recalibrating, resilience and being there for 70 years. I can only speak for myself, but I am sure it is mirrored by other people, that the sense of disillusionment, helplessness, hopelessness and doom I would feel when reading reactions or seeing a chink of light get shut off means my heart literally and physically sinks, and I am not within a micro-distance of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: Who is the pressure from, Mr. Whyte?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: It seems appropriate that we let the clock tick to 3 minutes 30 seconds and silently reflect on what Mr. Whyte has said to us. That was a very powerful statement.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: 209. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider tax relief on school voluntary contributions; the estimated total sum in monetary terms made in terms of such contributions by the public on an annual basis; and what the possible implications of such a relief are. [49698/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Schooling (23 Sep 2025)
John Lahart: 343. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a formal protocol or process in place to facilitate home-schooled students, particularly those with additional educational needs such as ADHD, to sit the Leaving Certificate examinations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50442/25]