Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome Mr. Donoghue and congratulate him on the work he and the Kenyan representative have done to deliver these goals. There were mixed feelings about the millennium development goals, MDGs, that preceded the SDGs. Does Mr. Donoghue think we have learned any lessons from the MDGs and how do the SDGs differ from them? I wish to follow up on Senator Bacik's point about monitoring. Mr. Donoghue has experience of the Irish system.

Given that we have such a broad group of stakeholders, how does Mr. Donoghue see that progress being monitored, people being involved in the debate and the roll-out? That is the key component. I would have thought the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, but Mr. Donoghue has also mentioned the Department of Education and Skills and the Department of Health. I do not know how that is going to be done. Will there be different sectors, with the Minister going through each one? I am a bit all over the place when it comes to it.

UN reform is very important, and it is an extremely important international organisation. Many would have concerns about the Security Council and the veto of the permanent members and the whole process being deeply undemocratic and unequal. Is there any appetite for UN reform in this regard, and can Mr. Donoghue see it happening any time soon?

I am conscious that the witness has a background in refugee issues. Will he expand on that work and the impact that the New York Declaration will possibly have on the global refugee crisis? I am very conscious of the fact that we are dealing with an unprecedented number of refugees and internally displaced people around the world, with the figure of 65 million one that is quoted all the time, and the significant humanitarian crisis. We have been critical of the EU-Turkey deal and in relation to Libya. This deal, which we are facilitating, will be discussed at EU level in the next couple of days. It involves pushing people back into detention camps. In some cases women are being tortured, there are ventilation and sanitation issues, and the people are being treated like commodities. Does the witness have any concerns about our approach to these deals we are doing to try to deal with the migrant crisis that is clearly happening in various parts of the world, but particularly in Europe?