Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade
Ebola Crisis in Sierra Leone: Irish Ambassador
10:00 am
H.E. Dr. Sinéad Walsh:
Again I believe it is a bit too early to tell. In Sierra Leone and Liberia there has certainly been criticism of the governments' responses, as one would expect. But there has also been praise for the responses in both countries. Everybody is focussed on getting to zero cases so the current situation is very much about supporting the governments to do that. When we are at zero we will start to see if there has been a longer term impact on how the citizens in the countries view the governments' responses, or if they feel positively because they may see the governments as victors in getting to zero. I do not know how it will end up as both sets of dynamics are playing at the moment in both countries.
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