Seán Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I apologise for being late. I was delayed and I did not have an opportunity to listen to the presentations. I am particularly interested in the situation in Somalia, which I visited more than 20 years ago when we had troops there. Reading the report from Dóchas, the very minimum that seems to have happened is it has remained stable or has gone backwards. It is horrifying. When I came home from Somalia, and I say this in all sincerity, because I had never in my life seen such poverty I said if anybody speaks to me about poverty in Ireland I would scream. I could not explain to people what I saw. Children in an orphanage received one bowl of rice per day.