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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Committee (9 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: Perhaps I could make a suggestion. The Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement is to meet next week.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Committee (9 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: I suggest to the Senator that he attend that meeting and discuss with the secretariat what transpired at last week's meeting, following which he can come back to me on the matter. The reality may be that the committee does not want to hold a joint meeting with this committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Committee (9 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: I have received a letter from the clerk to the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, who is a person I respect very much. That letter states that as the issues are predominantly the responsibility of that committee, in its view a joint meeting of both committees is not necessary at this juncture but that members of this committee are welcome to attend future...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Committee (9 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Committee (9 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: Fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Committee (9 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Committee (9 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: I suggest that the Senator should go to next week's meeting of that committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Committee (9 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: He can come back to me afterwards.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Committee (9 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: Is that all right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Committee (9 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: I take it that the Senator does not want to press-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Committee (9 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: It is their work programme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Committee (9 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: It is as if the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs started doing work on Irish aid.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Committee (9 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: I do not think we would be very happy about that in this committee. We would see it as part of our work programme. I assume the Senator is not pressing the motion at the moment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Committee (9 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: I thank the Senator. We will move on to the next motion in the name of Senator Daly, which relates to the proposed demolition and transfer of Susiya in the Israeli settlement of the West Bank. I invite the Senator to speak in support of this motion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Committee (9 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: Before I bring in the other members of the committee, I remind them that a briefing note from the Department on this matter has been circulated to them. It appears from the note that the Minister has already made known his view and that of Ireland on this matter, which is that this is a breach of international law. The Minister has acknowledged that view, which has been brought to the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Committee (9 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: I ask the Senator to let Deputy Durkan finish. I will let him in again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Committee (9 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: I ask the Senator to respect the Chair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Committee (9 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: I will let the Senator back in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Committee (9 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Committee (9 Jul 2015)
Pat Breen: I will let the Senator address that when he speaks again.