Results 1,401-1,420 of 21,096 for speaker:Charles Flanagan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: I am sure we will have an opportunity to come back to this important issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: We will come back to Mr. Burgess on that point in the course of the meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: The Deputy has one minute remaining.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: I ask the Minister to respond briefly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: Deputy Brady, please. The time is exhausted.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: Deputy Brady, please. The time slot has been exhausted.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: I remind Deputy Brady that the time is up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: Deputy Brady, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: I ask Deputy Brady for the third time to, please-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: I remind Deputy Brady that we agreed the time slots. In fairness to other members, Deputy, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: I thank the Minister. We are moving on to Senator Joe O'Reilly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: Deputy Brady-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: I again ask Deputy Brady to, please, abide by the agreement in respect of the format of the meeting and the process. I am moving on to Senator O'Reilly. Deputy Brady may have an opportunity to come back for supplementary questions later but if Deputies continue to go over time in the manner in which Deputy Brady has, that may not be possible.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: There is an overlap of some questions and it may be opportune, in the course of this session, to invite a brief comment from the former Secretary General, Mr. Burgess, as the Minister mentioned earlier.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: I take it that Senator O’Reilly is pleased with those answers. We will move on to Deputy Gannon.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: We will have one final question from Deputy Gannon.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: The next speaker is Senator Craughwell. I thank the Minister for returning to the House to deal with this unfortunate state of affairs. I am somewhat surprised by the apparent unguarded manner in which the Minister oversaw his ministerial responsibility for the security of the information communication from and to his phone, issued to him by the State, as Minister for Foreign Affairs but,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: Senator Craughwell has asked a number of very important questions that have not been asked before and, in fairness, we should give the Minister an opportunity to reply.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: I remind the Senator that the Minister's portfolio is foreign affairs and defence. He is not the Minister for public expenditure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence (7 Sep 2021)
Charles Flanagan: There may be issues that the Senator is raising that are not within the competency of the Minister to respond.