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

That is good because we had considerable engagement with Oireachtas colleagues, NGOs and other interested parties. I refer the Minister of State to Yemen. Deputy Barrett noted how dispiriting it is to turn on one's television and to see that there are so many crises throughout the world. I am sure there are crises of which we are not aware to the extent we should be which involve hunger and conflict. I hope the Minster of State will be in a position to allocate some additional funding to help those people who are suffering so much and so bitterly in that situation of famine. While some funding has already been allocated, I hope it will be possible to make a substantial allocation to ease in some way the plight and suffering of those people.