Maureen O'Sullivan (Dublin Central, Independent) | Oireachtas source

What is the ambassador's view on what is happening? There are dreadful casualties at the moment in Gaza. Last week, we informally met the Israeli ambassador. There seems to be no impetus for a negotiated peace.

Regardless of the political situation in Syria, I ask that the Iranian Government, because it has influence, to ensure that food is not used as a weapon of war and that food gets through to all civilian populations.

My third question on the political sphere relates to the Kurdish people. Kurdish people fall in to the category of people over history who have been very badly deprived of a homeland. What is happening now in Iraq is a Kurdish state. I spoke to somebody who had been in Erbil and who talked about the difference in that area, the infrastructure and the work that has been going on there. What is the percentage of Kurdish people living in Iran?