Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is easy to pledge funding for a project that we know will not be drawn down, but I presume that is not the ethos of the European Union when it makes commitments and pledges. To Ms Minch's knowledge, when the European Union, on behalf of its 500 million citizens, makes a pledge to provide much needed funding to relieve the desperate plight of so many innocent people, is there any interaction between it and Israel to try to remove the blockages in order that pledged money can be drawn down to build facilities and homes for the Palestinian people?