Results 1,341-1,360 of 21,096 for speaker:Charles Flanagan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: It is a completely different process.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: Mr. Fraser?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: In any event, Mr. Fraser and Senator Craughwell, I am not going to allow a discussion on this issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: The process is entirely different.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: And he has been helpful.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: I must say, Senator Craughwell, there are two distinctly different processes in the matter of the appointment from within the Civil Service of an ambassador and the appointment of a special envoy, which is precisely the reason that this committee has been engaged in this issue since early August. I do not think it is fair, at this stage of our debate, that there should be an attempt on the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: I will move on after a brief comment from Secretary to the Government on the processes involved here. It seems to me that Senator Craughwell is forming the view that the appointment of a special envoy is exactly the same process as the appointment of an ambassador.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: I ask the Secretary to the Government for a brief comment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: I am not sure of the extent to which the Secretary to the Government can answer that question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: That is noted, Senator.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: I call on Senator Ardagh, who has a brief question, then Deputy Cowen and then our guest.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: With respect to Deputy Cowen, asking the Secretary General about a comment of the Minister is probably not the easiest way to find resolution.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: Yes, no names.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: Is the Deputy finished?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: I call now Senator Ó Donnghaile.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: Senator Ó Donnghaile, I have already ruled as Chair that the committee is not charged with any remit dealing with mother and baby homes or any discussion at Cabinet pertaining to same. That notwithstanding, the Secretary General is already on record at this committee as making a comment. I am unsure as to the extent to which the Secretary General would wish either to repeat that or...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: The Senator is introducing a discussion on it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: I do not think-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: In any event, the Senator may well be aware that this was the issue that was the subject matter of very serious charges that were made in the Lower House of the Oireachtas some two weeks ago and may well be the subject matter of a complaint to the Committee on Parliamentary Privileges and Oversight. I do not believe this committee has any information that can assist, expand or develop that...