Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We have been there a number of times. We went there last year. First of all, I went to Gaza and Israel with the then leader of the Opposition, An Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny, and Deputies Billy Timmins and Alan Shatter. The committee has gone on a number of occasions. We went last year to the refugee camps in Jordan. We think Jordan has an important role to play in the peace process. It is a very poor country and is affected by what is happening in the Middle East. We also met the chief negotiator for the Palestinians, the Palestinian foreign minister and some senior politicians in the Knesset in Israel. There was no foreign minister in place in Israel at the time so we did not get an opportunity to meet them. My question relates to the future. If this thing was simple to solve, it would have been solved many years ago.