Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the delegates for their contributions to the meeting. We have learned a great deal from this engagement and will remain focused on this important issue. It is perhaps as important as what happened some years ago in the Horn of Africa. The peace deal that is in place is temporary, but we hope it will hold and the situation will improve as time goes on. We will ask the Tánaiste to raise the issue at the forthcoming European Council meeting, we will raise it ourselves at our European Presidency meeting in Rome, and we will also talk to our MEPs. I ask the delegates to keep in touch with us on this matter. This was a useful discussion and members are very interested in what is happening in the region.

The questions were very good and members' knowledge of what is happening there is clear.