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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (25 Nov 2015)

Peter Mathews: As regards legality, I have heard the words "legality" and "law" spoken everywhere today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (25 Nov 2015)

Peter Mathews: Slavery was legal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (25 Nov 2015)

Peter Mathews: We have to examine what the underlying principles and behaviours are-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (25 Nov 2015)

Peter Mathews: One last thing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (25 Nov 2015)

Peter Mathews: A psychiatrist would say that if a person keeps getting the same results and if they keep doing what they are doing, they will get more of what they have got. One must do something different and radical-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (25 Nov 2015)

Peter Mathews: -----something with civility, compassion, understanding, with the things we do in our families.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (25 Nov 2015)

Peter Mathews: It is not being done at the leadership levels and we are accommodating regimes that are brutal------

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Affairs Council: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (25 Nov 2015)

Peter Mathews: -----and tyrannical.

Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Peter Mathews: On Wednesday, 11 November, the Taoiseach gave an unequivocal undertaking to enact and have operational one-year bankruptcy law before the Christmas break. There are 11 working days left and this legislation must be enacted and operational to prevent the banks from continuing to financially waterboard families, destroy them and cause suicides.

Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Peter Mathews: I wish to raise a second issue, which is also very important. There is a deadline of 15 December for Ibrahim Halawa who is incarcerated in Egypt. This morning-----

Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Peter Mathews: I want to give the Taoiseach information.

Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Peter Mathews: This morning, on the Luas line at Leopardstown, I met a classmate of Ibrahim's-----

Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Peter Mathews: -----who is a constituent of mine in Dublin South at the Islamic Cultural Centre.

Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Peter Mathews: This man might be condemned to death but a presidential decree sent by the Taoiseach-----

Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Peter Mathews: Yes, a Cheann Comhairle, you are making a habit of asking me to leave the House.

Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Peter Mathews: I am not ignoring the Chair. I am respecting the Ceann Comhairle and giving him an opportunity to allow me to finish two sentences on the life or death of a 19 year old man.

Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Peter Mathews: If the Taoiseach sends a presidential request by presidential decree to the President of Egypt-----

Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Peter Mathews: -----the man can be tried in his home country.

Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Peter Mathews: Of course I am listening.

Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Peter Mathews: A Cheann Comhairle, this is-----