Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Andrews and Mr. Glasgow for briefing us on GOAL's activities and their journey into Syria from 2 to 4 April. We would love to keep in touch with you on this. The discussion is always useful and we want to keep it at the top of the agenda. We look forward to meeting you again. Thank you both for updating us on your experience in Syria. There will be other opportunities for us to talk about GOAL's activities. We will leave Mr. Andrews a bit longer in the job before we come back to him on that but obviously we will keep in touch with GOAL, which plays a very important role. We have visited some of the GOAL projects on our development aid visits, particularly the GOAL street children project. We were in Addis Ababa and saw for ourselves at first hand the fantastic work being done by GOAL there. As Mr. Andrews said, GOAL is operating in many countries so we commend him and his organisation on the work they do.